Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tolkien, J. R. R
• ASA SIMON MITTMAN
• MARCUS HENSEL
• Mittman, Asa Simon
• Hensel, Marcus

Titel

BEOWULF: THE MONSTERS AND THE CRITICS

Ist Teil von

• Classic Readings on Monster Theory, 2018, p.3-18

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: Arc Humanities Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• IN 1864 THE Reverend Oswald Cockayne wrote of the Reverend Doctor Joseph Bosworth, Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon: “I have tried to lend to others the conviction I have long entertained that Dr. Bosworth is not a man so diligent in his special walk as duly to read the books … which have been printed in our old English, or so-called Anglosaxon [sic] tongue. He may do very well for a professor.”¹ These words were inspired by dissatisfaction with Bosworth’s dictionary, and were doubtless unfair. If Bosworth were still alive, a modern Cockayne would probably accuse him of not reading the