The monsters and the critics : and other essays

A collection of seven essays by JRR Tolkien, including two concerned with Beowulf. The seven "essays" by JRR Tolkien assembled in this paperback were with one exception delivered as general lectures on particular occasions; and while they mostly arose out of Tolkien's work in medieval literature, they are accessible to all. Two of them are concerned with Beowulf, including the well-known lecture whose title is taken for this book, and one with Si...