This volume brings together a series of key essays by Larry D Benson, well-known for his work in editing the Riverside Chaucer.
A selection (by editors Theodore M. Andersson and Stephen A. Barney) of key studies by Benson (English, Harvard U.), general editor of the Riverside Chaucer . The first three essays deal with Old English, recasting the possibilities for the critical study of Beowulf, above all the relation between