Word: beowulf
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Distinguished in appearance, impressive in speech, and Olympian in manner, he has awed class after class when he expounds the intricacies of Elizabethan interpretations, or the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf. Today ends his forty-eighth year of classroom teaching, and in the fourth and succeeding centuries of Harvard's existence, today will be remembered for that reason alone...
Professor Kittredge's fame has spread in the words of his hero, Beowulf, "wide through all the land." Wherever scholars are gathered in the study of Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Beowulf, wherever medieval romances, English and Scottish ballads are delighting students anew there will be felt the influence of George Lyman Kittredge...
...Beowulf," Professor Matthiessen, Sever...
...reading, mostly culled from the familiar "From Beowulf to Thomas Hardy," covers more or less completely the whole of English literature to the end of the nineteenth century. The emphasis is on the recognized great names, and the most of minor writers are disregarded. Little historical knowledge of the periods beyond a rough approximation of dates is required. The two section meetings each week are devoted mostly to elucidation of the meaning and significance of the selections read; they vary, as in all such courses, with the quality of the section men. On the whole, the English 28 staff...
...student who contemplates graduate work in English or who plans to take 3b, Mr. Kittredge's course in Beowulf, 3a is indispensable. To complete one's study of Old English with it, however, is analogous to leaving Latin with Caesar. It is an elementary course concerned mainly with the reading of prose varied by the often delightful and always illuminating comments of Mr. Magoun. The grammar, one of the simplest, is covered at almost breakneck speed and the reading begun before the student has mastered more than the demonstrative paradigm and the representative strong verbs. That reading consists largely...