According to one scholar, it has been called the “greatest Christian poem written in English.” That’s a debatable call but a position that one would well argue. It is certainly one of the oldest poems ...

The oldest poem to be written in Old English has been found hidden in a manuscript in Rome. Find out more here.

Hefty and easy to like, fit at once for the classroom and the kitchen table, this anthology is a rare beast, a commercial opportunity that also fulfills a real literary need. Most of the corpus of ...

This documentary goes beyond the text of the epic poem and examines the history behind its writing With interviews and travels in Europe BEOWULF AND THE ANGLOSAXONS dives into the culture of the ...

Once upon a time you could not get a graduate degree in English at an American university without reading some Anglo-Saxon poetry. That time has gone, not quite "as if it had never been"—as the poem ...

I am currently reading Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon poem with my students in a freshman seminar. One of the questions I will ask them: Who is a hero or heroine for you? Do we, today, consider anyone ...