Beowulf: The Critical Heritage / Edition 1

Beowulf: The Critical Heritage / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
1138009105
ISBN-13:
9781138009103
Pub. Date:
07/17/2014
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
1138009105
ISBN-13:
9781138009103
Pub. Date:
07/17/2014
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Beowulf: The Critical Heritage / Edition 1

Beowulf: The Critical Heritage / Edition 1

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Overview

Beowulf is the oldest and most complete epic poem in any non-Classical European language. Our only manuscript, written in Old English, dates from close to the year 1000. However, the poem remained effectively unknown even to scholars until the year 1815, when it was first published in Copenhagen.
This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of critical commentary from the vast body of scholarship on Beowulf - including English translations from German, Danish, Latin and Spanish - from the poem's first mention in 1705 to the Anglophone scholarship of the early twentieth century. Tom Shippey provides both a contextual introduction and a guide to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholarship which generated these Beowulf commentaries.
The book is a vital document for the study of one of the major texts of 'the Northern renaissance', in which completely unknown poems and even languages were brought to the attention first of the learned world and then of popular culture. It also acts as a valuable guide to the development of nationalist and racist sentiment, beginning romantically and ending with World War and attempted genocide.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138009103
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/17/2014
Series: Critical Heritage
Pages: 612
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tom Shippey holds the Alter J. Ong S.J. Chair of Humanities at Saint Louis University. He has published repeatedly on Beowulf and Old English peotry generally. His colleague Professor Andreas Haarder published the groundbreaking study Beowulf: the Appeal of a Poem (1975).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi

Abbreviations xiii

Editorial Preface xiv

Introduction 1

1 Humfrey Wanley 1705 75

2 Jacob Langebek 1772 76

3 Sharon Turner 1803 77

4 Sharon Turner 1805 78

5 Sharon Turner 1807 85

6 Grímur Jónsson Thorkelín 1815 91

7 Anon. [Peter Erasmus Müller] 1815 98

8 Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig 1815 108

9 Grímur Thorkelín 1815 113

10 Anon. [Abraham Jacob Penzel] 1816 116

11 Nicholaus Outzen (and Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann) 1816 123

12 Anon. [William Taylor] 1816 132

13 Anon. [Gustaf Wilhelm Gumælius] 1817 136

14 N.F.S. Grundtvig 1817 143

15 Anon. [Friedrich Ludewig Bouterwek] 1818 152

16 Ebenezer Henderson 1818 156

17 N.F.S. Grundtvig 1820 158

18 Sharon Turner 1820 161

19 F.C. Dahlmann 1822 166

20 Thomas Silver 1822 168

21 Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm 1823 170

22 Richard Price 1824 173

23 Sir Waiter Scott 1824 177

24 John Josias Conybeare 1826 177

25 Wilhelm Karl Grimm 1829 180

26 Joast Hiddes Halbertsma 1829 182

27 N.F.S. Grundtvig 1831 183

28 Henry Wheaton 1831 185

29 John Mitchell Kemble 1832-4 186

30 J.M. Kemble 1833 190

31 J.M. Kemble (and anonymous others) 1834 195

32 Jacob Grimm 1835 200

33 Thomas Wright 1835 203

34 J.M. Kemble 1836 205

35 Jacob Grimm 1830 206

36 Franz Joseph Mone 1836 208

37 J.M. Kemble 1837 213

38 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1838 223

39 Heinrich Leo 1839 227

40 Ernst Moritz Ludwig Ettmüller 1840 231

41 Jacob Grimm 1840 235

42 Isaac Disraeli 1841 236

43 N.F.S. Grandtvig 1841 241

44 Johannes Pieter Arend 1842 245

45 Wilhelm Grimm 1842[?] 248

46 Thomas Wright 1842 250

47 Jacob Grimm 1841 251

48 Karl Victor Müllenhoflf (and Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch) 1844 252

49 Thomas Dale 1845 258

50 Anon. [Johann Martin Lappenberg?] 1845 259

51 Karl Müllenhoff 1845 261

52 Thomas Wright 1846 266

53 Ludwig Ettmüller 1847 268

54 Johann Paul Ernst Greverus 1848 269

55 Joseph Bachlechner 1849 272

56 Moriz Haupt 1849 273

57 J.M. Kemble 1849 274

58 Karl Müllenhoff 1849 280

59 Karl Müllenhoff 1849 283

60 Gísli Bryiijúlfsson 1852 291

61 Benjamin Thorpe 1855 297

62 Joseph Bachlechner 1856 299

63 Karl Wilhelm Bouterwek 1856 303

64 Karl Joseph Sunrork 1859 306

65 Daniel Henry Haigh 1861 317

66 Christian Wilhelm Michael Grein 1862 321

67 Adolf Holtzmann 1863 334

68 Hippolyie Adolphe Taine 1863 338

69 Henry Morley 1864 340

70 Karl Müllenhoff 1865 341

71 Karl Müllenhoff (and Wilhelm Scherer) 1868 343

72 Karl Müllenhoff 1869 346

73 Wilhelm Scherer 1869 354

74 Artur Köhler 1870 358

75 Artur Köhler 1870 364

76 Henry Sweet 1871 368

77 Sophus Bugge 1872 370

78 Ludvig Schrøder 1875 372

79 Thomas Arnold Jr 1876 374

80 Bernhard Konrad Aegidius ten Brink 1877 377

81 John Richard Green 1877 383

82 Hermann Dederich 1877 385

83 Walter William Skeat 1877 387

84 George Stephens 1878 388

85 Guthbrandur Vigfússon 1878 392

86 Ludwig Laistner 1879 393

87 Henry Sweet 1879 396

88 Thomas Northcote Toiler 1880 397

89 J.R. Green 1882 399

90 Martin Thomas Hermann Möller 1883 400

91 Frederik Rönning 1883 410

92 Guthbrandur Vigfússon and F. York Powell 1883 416

93 John Earle 1884 418

94 Thomas Kruger 1884 421

95 John Fade 1884-5 422

96 Gregor Ignatz Sarrazin 1886 429

97 Eduard Sievers 1886 436

98 Walter Skeat 1886 437

99 Sophus Bugge 1887 441

100 Johan Hendrik Gallée 1887 445

101 Henry Morley 1887 448

102 Bernhard ten Brink 1888 450

103 Richard Heinzel 1889 457

104 Max Hermann Jellinek and Carl Kraus 1891 463

105 Stopford Augustus Brooke 1892 467

106 John Earle 1892 469

107 Anon. [Henry Bradley?] 1892 475

108 Rudolf Kögel 1893 477

109 Rudolf Kögel 1894 479

110 Thomas Miller 1894 482

111 William John Courthope 1895 482

112 William Paton Ker 1897 484

113 Stopford Brooke 1898 486

114 Gregor Sarrazin 1898 489

115 Pieter Johann Cosijn 1899 492

116 Axel Olrik 1903 497

117 W.P. Ker 1904 503

118 Andreas Heusler 1905 505

119 Levin Ludwig Schücking 1905 507

120 Alois Brandl 1908 511

121 Friedrich Wilhelm Panzer 1910 517

122 M.G. Clarke 1911 524

123 W.R Ker 1912 529

124 Walter Benary 1913 532

125 Walter Arthur Berendsohn 1915 534

126 Levin Schücking 1917 536

127 Walter Berendsohn 1935 542

Appendix A Key to References to Thorkelin's Edition 546

Appendix B A Note on Line Numbers 549

Bibliography 550

Index 570

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