Sara’s Reviews > Tolkien > Status Update

Absolutely loved the discussion of the Oxford English School with its various endowed chairs and philology scholars. Formerly opaque-as-mud sections of Tolkien's essay, 'Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics,' have come alive for me now! Bosworth, Earle, Napier, Sweet, Ker, Wright, Chambers - Edwards shows how they fit as intellectual forebears upon whom Tolkien stood and against whom he sparred. Cool!