| Beowulf and the Critics | |
| Author: | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Editor: | Michael D. C. Drout |
| Country: | United States |
| Series: | Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Volume 248--> |
| Subject: | Beowulf criticism |
| Genre: | Literature, Essays |
| Publisher: | Arizona State University |
| Release Date: | 2002 |
| Media Type: | Hardcover |
| Pages: | 461 |
| Isbn: | 0-86698-290-6 |
| Dewey: | 829/.3 21 |
| Congress: | PR1585 .T6 2002 |
| Oclc: | 50002235--> |
Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien is a 2002 book edited by Michael D. C. Drout that presents scholarly editions of the two manuscript versions of Tolkien's essays or lecture series "Beowulf and the Critics", which served as the basis for the much shorter 1936 lecture "".
Beowulf and the Critics was awarded the 2003 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies.[1]