Beowulf and the Critics

Beowulf and the Critics
Dustwrapper of first edition
Author(s)	J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Michael D. C. Drout
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Volume 248
Subject(s)	Beowulf criticism
Genre(s)	Literature, Essays
Publisher	Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University
Publication date	2002
Media type	Hardcover
Pages	461
ISBN	0-8669-8290-6
OCLC Number	50002235
Dewey Decimal	829/.3 21
LC Classification	PR1585 .T6 2002

Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien is a book edited by Michael D. C. Drout that presents scholary editions of the two manuscript versions of Tolkien's essays or lecture series "Beowulf and the Critics", which served as the basis for the much shorter 1936 lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics".

Beowulf and the Critics was awarded the 2003 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies.