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.

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.

Reviews
"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

Book Information
ISBN 9780631172260
Author Bruce Mitchell
Format Paperback
Page Count 332
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 499g
Dimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm * 25mm