The Translations of Beowulf

Note 1 — Canto VIII. (continued 2)

Reading edition

Miss Thomson is better known as the biographer of Samuel Richardson. See Samuel Richardson, a Biographical and Critical Study. London, 1900.

2. The author’s argument against inserting the Prolog is sound enough; but the omission of any part of the poem in a paraphrase so good as Miss Thomson’s is to be regretted.

3. See supra, p. 138.

4. See supra, p. 128.

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