Books like Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburh: A Modern English Verse Rendering

Although Tolkien fans will no doubt disagree, Klaeber's Beowulf is undoubtably the most important work on the poem ever produced and after ninety years is still the most authoritative edition of the text. First published in 1922, one of the most exciting periods in Beowulfian studies and dominated by scholars such as Chambers and Lawrence. Chambers, who had by chance published his own Beowulf text and now legendary study of the poem, heaped instant praise on klaeber for his revolutionary new edition. Klaeber went on to update the book at regular periods, resulting in the third edition of 1950, during a difficult period in Eastern Germany under Russian occupation.Any student approaching Beowulf at an academic level can look forward to many happy or unhappy hours studying the intricacies of this text and browsing the huge introduction, commentaries, glossary and extra material. This third edition is now superseded by the new fourth edition that was edited and updated by John Niles and company a few years ago, but anyone with any knowledge of Old English studies will know the value of the third edition and will probably own both.