@inbook{10.3138/9781442698758.7,
 ISBN = {9780802099440},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442698758.7},
 abstract = {During the 1950s, Francis P. Magoun represented theBeowulfpoet as an oral improviser with limited aesthetic interests.¹ Arthur G. Brodeur promptly disagreed, arguing thatBeowulfpioneered a movement from short, orally composed lays to literate epics.² A decade later, Eric G. Stanley elaborated a position between the two extremes, judging that ‘this highly wrought poem is the product of a lettered poet, or at least of a slow, non-extemporizing poet.’³ Since Magoun, other researchers have made serious attempts to reconcile the poem’s quality with its debt to oral tradition, but there is still no agreement about howBeowulfwas},
 author = {GEOFFREY RUSSOM},
 booktitle = {On the Aestheticsof Beowulf and Other Old English Poems},
 pages = {64--80},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {Aesthetic Criteria in Old English Heroic Style},
 year = {2010}
}