Poetic Obituaries: [Bruce] Mitchell also wrote numerous works

of criticism and textual studies of Old English works, notably elucidating the context and meaning of the poem Beowulf, of which he published (with Fred C Robinson) a landmark edition in 1998--a distillation of decades of affectionate attention to the poem by two of the leading scholars in the field.

One of Mitchell's particular concerns was the way in which modern translations add punctuation to Old English texts in ways that distort their meaning.

from Telegraph: Bruce Mitchell

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