The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays
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| Author | J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (editor) |
| Released | 1983 (1st edition) |
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays is a collection of J.R.R. Tolkien's scholarly linguistic essays and lectures. The book was published posthumously in 1983, edited by Christopher Tolkien.
Content
Some of the essays included in The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays had been published before, while some appeared for the first time in print.
- Previuosly published:
- "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (lecture delivered in 1936 and published in Proceedings of the British Academy, volume XXII in the same year)
- "On Translating Beowulf" (published in 1940 as "Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of 'Beowulf'")
- "English and Welsh" (lecture delivered in 1955 and published in Angles and Britons: O'Donnell Lectures in 1963)
- "On Fairy-Stories" (lecture delivered in 1939 and published in Essays Presented to Charles Williams in 1947)
- Previuosly unpublished:
The book also contains a foreword by Christopher Tolkien.
Editions, selection
- 1983: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays. London: George Allen & Unwin.
- 1984: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- 1997: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays. HarperCollins. ISBN: 026110263X. Paperback, 256 pages.
