Beowulf Mother Mary Francis Releasing the tension in Aristotle’s

Releasing the tension in Aristotle’s dictum that to poetry belongs the universal and to history the particular

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Beowulf Mother Mary Francis Releasing the tension in Aristotle’sTranslated by Ben J. Reinhard Dating from the age of Bede the Venerable, Beowulf is the quintessential Anglo Saxon poem, the heroic elegaic of man versus monsters. The hero, Beowulf, defends the Danes against the rampaging Grendel and his monstrous mother, and returns home, where he lives long and prosperously. At lifes end, however, he must confront the final foe, death, in battle with a dragon, deadly and ancient. Hark! We have heard of the Spear