JRR Tolkien gave a lecture about Beowulf in 1936 entitled ‘Beowulf: The Monster and the Critic’ who proved that the focal point of the poem being mortality. Tolkien went on to explain that Beowulf was epic as a poem and not a historical piece of work He also considers the poem more of an elegy than an epic. Seamus Heaney along with many other critics have praised this lecture, ‘Scholars of Anglo-Saxon’ agree that the work was influential in transforming the study of Beowulf’.
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