Beowulf / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom. - New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2008. - 112 p. ; 23 cm. - Bloom's guides. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-105) and index.

J.R.R. Tolkein on poetic structure -- Joan Blomfield on style -- Stanley B. Greenfield on the epic quality -- Edward B. Irving, Jr. on negative definitions -- T.A. Shippey on symbols in the world of the poem -- James W. Earl on the gold hoard -- David Williams on Cain's progeny -- Linda Georgianna on Beowulf's speech before the dragon fight -- Susanne Weil on free will -- Paul Dean on history and the passage of time -- Thomas A. Prendergast on memory and the idolatrous pleasures of heroic poetry.

ISBN: 9780791094327 0791094324

LCCN: 2007030234

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Beowulf.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Epic poetry, English (Old)--History and criticism.