Michael Drout
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- Michael D.C. Drout
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- TriviaProfessor of English at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass., where he teaches Old English (Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, medieval literature, fantasy, science fiction and writing. His expertise is in tenth-century English literature and culture, meme-based theories of culture, and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
- Quotes[on discovering J.R.R. Tolkien's translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf in Oxford's Bodleian Library:] I was looking at Tolkien's draft of an essay that he wrote in 1936 and I realized that there was a full four volumes of handwritten material that I knew nothing about. I was walking down Cat Street screaming to my wife, 'I have found this manuscript!'" [3 January, 2003]
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