Beowulf

Overview of the Anglo-Saxon Period

Definition of an epic

• "Beowulf." The British Library, https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/beowulf

• Beowulf - Bloom's Guides

• Beowulf - Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations

• Livingston, Michael and John William Sutton. "Reinventing the Hero: Gardner's Grendel and the Shifting Face of Beowulf in Popular Culture." Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 29, no. 1, October 2006, pp. 1-16.

• Symons, Victoria. "Monsters and heroes in Beowulf." The British Library, 31 Jan. 2018.

• Beowulf. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, performances by Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, and Robin Wright, Paramount, 2007.

• Grendel by John Gardner (excerpts)

• Anglo-Saxon Poems:

  • • "The Ruin"

    • "The Wanderer and The Seafarer"

    • "The Wife's Complaint, The Husband's Message, Wulf and Eadwager"