The Art of Beowulf

The diction of Beowulf --
Variation --
The structure and the unity of Beowulf --
Design for terror --
Setting and action --
Episodes and digressions --
Christian and pagan in Beowulf --
Anticipation, contrast, and irony --
Appendix: --
A. The varieties of poetic appellation --
B. Check-list of compounds formed on the same base-words in Beowulf and in other poems --
C. The limits of variation.