Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf has long been the standard edition for
study by students and advanced scholars alike. Its wide-ranging
coverage of scholarship, its comprehensive philological aids, and
its exceptionally thorough notes and glossary have ensured its
continued use in spite of the fact that the book has remained
largely unaltered since 1936. The fourth edition has been prepared
with the aim of updating the scholarship while preserving the
aspects of Klaeber's work that have made it useful to students of
literature, linguists, historians, folklorists, manuscript
specialists, archaeologists, and theorists of culture.
A revised Introduction and Commentary incorporates the vast
store of scholarship on Beowulf that has appeared since 1950. It
brings readers up to date on areas of scholarship that have been
controversial since the last edition, including the construction of
the unique manuscript and views on the poem's date and unity of
composition. The lightly revised text incorporates the best textual
criticism of the intervening years, and the expanded Commentary
furnishes detailed bibliographic guidance to discussion of textual
cruces, as well as to modern and contemporary critical concerns.
Aids to pronunciation have been added to the text, and advances in
the study of the poem's language are addressed throughout. Readers
will find that the book remains recognizably Klaeber's work, but
with altered and added features designed to render it as useful
today as it has ever been.
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