Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Story Behind the Story -- List of Characters -- Summary and Analysis -- Critical Views -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Poetic Structure -- Joan Blomfield on Style -- Stanley B. Greenfield on the Epic Quality -- Edward B....
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Story Behind the Story -- List of Characters -- Summary and Analysis -- Critical Views -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Poetic Structure -- Joan Blomfield on Style -- Stanley B. Greenfield on the Epic Quality -- Edward B. Irving, Jr. on Negative Definitions -- T.A. Shippey on Symbols in the World of the Poem -- James W. Earl on the Gold Hoard -- David Williams on Cain's Progeny -- Linda Georgianna on Beowulf 's Speech before the Dragon Fight -- Susanne Weil on Free Will -- Paul Dean on History and the Passage of Time -- Thomas A. Prendergast on Memory and the Idolatrous Pleasures of Heroic Poetry -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index.