Beowulf Introductory Research the first great work of English national literature. the epic story of the hero Beowulf, who fights the demonic monster Grendel.
* *Beowulf, tr. Seamus Heaney, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2000. * At the end of the Poetica, Aristotle also looked epic poetry, in particular, the Iliad as an ...