One of the most universally studied of the English classics, Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English. Written ten centuries ago, it celebrates the character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Geats, a people of Southern Sweden.

"This Dover edition, first published in 1992, is an unabridged repulication of Beowulf as translated from the Anglo-Saxon by R[obert] Gordon, originally published in the volume Anglo-Saxon poetry, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 1926."