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This magnificent new edition, which includes relevant shorter texts and key illustrations, is designed specifically to help those who, while already enjoying some acquaintance with Old English, come to Beowulf for the first time.As in their celebrated Guide to Old English, Fifth Edition, the editors rarely claim to originality in their emendations and interpretations. Rather they have tried to select what seemed to them the best scholarly view on each point, and usually this has been the view that enjoys a majority consensus among editors and scholars. They adopt a detached and impersonal presentation, resisting interpretation, except in a short section where they individually explain their own differing views about the poem. Concerned to encourage the reader as much as possible, Mitchell and Robinson keep their notes and emendations to a minimum. While they by no means attempt to conceal the existence of phonological and metrical problems, or of variant readings, they actively discuss such problems or readings only where these may affect the meaning of the poem. Leslie Webster's important contribution to the edition shows too the editors' determination to provide the reader with a contextual account as comprehensive as possible, within the bounds of an affordable edition, as does their discussion of what Klaeber calls the poem's "fabulous" and "historical" elements.Beowulf: An Edition consists of four parts: an introduction; text and notes; an account of how the editors arrived at their text; and a section devoted to giving the background to the poem. The text of the poem provided is that presented in the manuscript, in Wanley's catalogue, in the Thorkelin transcripts, in Kiernan's report on the state of the manuscript, and the compilation of J. R. Hall, with modern punctuation (used minimally) and modern diacritics.

Table of Contents:
Foreword. Acknowledgements. List of Figures/Illustrations. Map: The Geography of Beowulf. Part I: Introduction: 1. Manuscript. 2. Date, Place, and Circumstances, of Composition. 3. Language. 4. Structure. 5. Tone, Style, and Metre. 6. Subject Matter. 7. Two Views of Beowulf. Part II: Text and Notes: Part III: How We Arrived At Our Text: 8. Problems in Editing the Text. 9. Punctuation. Part IV: The Background: 10. Genealogical Tables. 11. The Geatish-Swedish Wars. 12. Archaeology and Beowulf. 13. Some Related Poems In Old English: 14. Widsith. 15. Deor. 16. Waldere. 17. The Battle Of Finnesburh. 18. Maxims I. 19. Documents Bearing on Beowulf: 20. Genealogies. 21. Cain And Abel. 22. The Flood. 23. Letter Of Alcuin To A Mercian Bishop, 797. 24. Hygelac. 25. The Flight Behind The Waterfall. 26. The Dragon Fight. Bibliography. Short Titles. Suggestions For Further Reading. Glossary. Abbreviations and Symbols. Notes on the Glossary. Glossary of Beowulf. Proper Names.

About the Author :
Bruce Mitchell is Fellow Emeritus at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. His many publications include An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England (Blackwell, 1994).

Fred C. Robinson is Douglas Tracy Smith Emeritus Professor of English at Yale University. His books include The Tomb of Beowulf, and Other Essays on Old English (Blackwell, 1993).
The sixth edition of Mitchell and Robinson's A Guide to Old English was published by Blackwell in 2001.



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"Mitchell and Robinson's Beowulf: An Edition has all of the features one hopes to find in a classroom edition: glossary, notes, copious but clear explanatory material. But it is more than an edition. It is a distillation of decades of affectionate attention to the poem by two of the top scholars in the field. From the smallest of details like punctuation to the broadest interpretations, Mitchell and Robinson display an abiding respect and admiration for the magnificent artistry of Beowulf." Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University

"This is an admirable introduction to the poem." Forum for Modern Language Studies

"[...] we should rejoice in what Mitchell and Robinson have provided: a new student's edition of a masterpiece of Old English poetry that has made Beowulf much more accessible to a whole new generation of students." Journal of English and Germanic Philology

"Mitchell and Robinson's "Beowulf: An Edition" has all of the features one hopes to find in a classroom edition: glossary, notes, copious but clear explanatory material. But it is more than an edition. It is a distillation of decades of affectionate attention to the poem by two of the top scholars in the field. From the smallest of details like punctuation to the broadest interpretations, Mitchell and Robinson display an abiding respect and admiration for the magnificent artistry of "Beowulf."" "Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University "

"This is an admirable introduction to the poem." "Forum for Modern Language Studies"

"[...] we should rejoice in what Mitchell and Robinson have provided: a new student's edition of a masterpiece of Old English poetry that has made "Beowulf" much more accessible to a whole new generation of students." "Journal of English and Germanic Philology"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780631172253
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell Publishers
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 784 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0631172254
  • Publisher Date: 24 Sep 1998
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm


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