The Art Of Beowulf

The diction of Beowulf --Variation --The structure and the unity of Beowulf --Design for terror --Setting and action --Episodes and digressions --Christian and pagan in Beowulf --Anticipation, contrast, and irony --Appendix: --A. The varieties of poetic appellation --B. Check-list of compounds formed on the same base-words in Beowulf and in other poems --C. The limits of variation.