The only extant manuscript of Beowulf, the oldest English verse poem, is on display at the British Library, but few scholars can examine the text firsthand. Electronic Beowulf, a recently released ...

I went to college a little bit later than most. Excited but nervous to plunge into a degree — in English literature — that demands all students learn Old English, I asked a friend what studying the ...

Virginia Woolf wrote Mrs. Dalloway in purple ink and barely scratched out a word. The old English script is still strikingly clear on the ragged-edged vellum of a 1,000-year-old manuscript of Beowulf.