...a poet to the fuller mode of treatment found in Waldere. A reasonable view of the merit of Beowulf is not impossible, though rash enthusiasm may have made too much of it, while a correct and sober Beowulf. taste may have too contemptuously refused to attend to Grendel or the Firedrake. The fault...

...a poet to the fuller mode of treatment found in Waldere. A reasonable view of the merit of Beowulf is not impossible, though rash enthusiasm may have made too much of it, white a correct and sober Beowulf. . taste may have too contemptuously refused to attend to Grendel...

...to accept the cautious surmise of Professor WP Ker that "a reasonable view of the merit of Beowulf is not impossible, though rash enthusiasm may have...have too contemptuously refused to attend to Grendel and the Firedrake, " and to leave it at that. I speak very cautiously because the manner of the late...

...to accept the cautious surmise of Professor WP Ker that 'a reasonable view of the merit of Beowulfis not impossible, though rash enthusiasm may have made...have too contemptuously refused to attend to Grendel and the Firedrake,' and to leave it at that. I speak very cautiously because the manner of the late...

...avoid quotation of the well-known passage in his Dark Ages: A reasonable view of the merit of Beowulf is not impossible, though rash enthusiasm may have...But there are other things in the lives of Hercules and Theseus besides the killing of the Hydra or of Procrustes. Beowulf has nothing else to do, when...