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History of English literature

· The oldest known song ­ Widsith (The Far Traveller/Wonderer); tells of a gleeman who travels in Europe, of his love of noble deeds, speaks of the shortness of life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widsith · The other known song ­ Deor's Lament. Can be called the first English lyrics, about 40 lines. Talks about a scop who is not happy with his life. · A-S poetry was fatalistic in its nature (fate controls you, not you it) · The greatest known A-S song, the epic Beowulf. The oldest epic poem in Europe. Composed at the end of the 7th century, the only manuscript that has survived is from the 10th century. Contains references to real people and real events. Scene of the poem: Denmark, southern Sweden (the A-S tribes came from these places). The poem records the history of the A-S tribes and the Jutes, before they invaded the British Isles. It is written in Old English, the language is lofty (very poetic, formal), it has

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The Life of Dante, the Inferno of Dante

In 1310 he writes De Monarchia presenting Dante's case for a one-ruler world order. Among his works, his reputation rests on his last work, The Divine Comedy. He began writing it somewhere between 1307-1314 and finished it only a short while before his death in 1321, while in exile. In this work, Dante introduces his invention of the terza rima, or three-line stanza as well as himself as a character. The Inferno is the first of three parts of Dante's epic poem, The Divine Comedy, which depicts an imaginary journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Dante is the hero, who loses his way in the "dark woods" and journeys to nine regions arranged around the wall of a huge funnel in nine concentric circles representing Hell. He is led by the ghost of Virgil, the Roman poet, who has come to rescue Dante from the dark forest and lead him through the realms of the afterlife. The first circle they enter is Limbo, which consists of heathen and the

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Literary analyses of Beowulf

The Literary Analyses of "Beowulf" "Beowulf" is a heroic epic that was written down around 1000 AD in Old English. The poem's composition, however, is considered to date back to about 700 AD, meaning that it is from the Anglo-Saxon literary period. The epic was most probably created by scop(s) who composed it for entertainment and in praise of their master. Over the three centuries the epic was being changed and adapted by them, as it was inherited by word of mouth. The events occurring in the poem are set in Southern Scandinavia, Geatland and Denmark, in the fifth and sixth centuries. It should be observed that the narrative is written in the third person point of view and the narrator is omniscient. The subject matters in this poem are restricted to war and death. This was their present and therefore interesting to them as they could identify with the characters

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Old English Literature

The Venerable Bede is the author of "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People", which is a record of the development of Christianity in England. 150 manuscripts have survived of the piece. 5.) Name the Fours significant volumes of Old English Verse that date back to the Anglo Saxon Period.  1) The Junius manuscript 2) The Beowulf 3) The Verchelli Book 4) The Exeter Book 6.) Beowulf: who and when composed the epic?, when does the action take place?, who is the storyteller?(how do we know?), What kind of society is described in Beowulf?, when and by whom was Beowulf re-discovered?, who are the writers Beowulf has influenced=, how many parts does the epic have?, what is its format?, what are the main ideas the epic stresses? Describe the heroic code of the Anglo Saxons, how does it contradict the Christian value system? Beowulf was composed by an unknown Anglo-Saxon poet around 700 A.D

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Outstanding figures in British literature

were rumors of a scandalous incestuous romance with his halfsister and selfimposed exile It has been speculated that he suffered from bipolar disorder and was bisexual The Byronic hero The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after Lord Byron. Both Byron's life and writings have been considered in different ways to exemplify the type. The Byronic hero first appears in Byron's semi autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Many of Byron's characters are a similar specific type of the Romantic hero: An idealised but flawed character with great talent and passion, a distaste for society, disrispect towards rank and privilege, arrogance, overconfidence, selfdistructiveness. Is rebellious, exiled. Charles Dickens 18121970 Works are very much influenced by his life Dickens worked in a factory as a young child, using this experience in many of his

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EXAM - English literature 2

A Tale of a Tub – personates a madman, satire on „corruption in religion and learning”. Alexander Pope: 2 great mock-heroic poems, series of Horatian imitations, 4 verse epistles on moral themes. The Rape of the Lock – based on piece of real-life gossip. The Dunciad – savage attack on hacks and booksellers, told in the form of a celebration of the progress of an empire, that of Dullness. Commonplace subjects are described in elevated, heroic style of classical epic. By parody and deliberate misuse of heroic language, emphasises triviality of subject. Moral Essays, Epistle to Augustus, The Epilogue to the Satires, Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot John Dryden: satires good-tempered, smth devastating scorn, has genius for verse rhytm, exceptional expressiveness of language. MacFlecknoe, Absalom and Achitophel, The Medal. Johnson: London, TheVanity of Human Wishes. 23. Augustan reflective and nature poetry (Winchilsea, Thomson, Denham, Dyer, Akenside,

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English literature

They deployed a crop rotation over three fields; used heavy ploughs. In 787 AD came the Vikings from Scandinavia, who set up their own state ­ Danelaw. Had their own religion, however their rituals did not demand sacrifices. Introduced new words (1800). Placenames withe suffixes -by and -dale. They had their own customs and laws, which we know due to sagas (oral history). They had no written language. Beowulf Beowulf is an epic or a long poem describing the adventures of an hero. It belongs to the Anglo-Saxon period, when they were still living on the mainland and then brought to Greta Britain . It was made up in the 3rd or 4th century. I was spread orally until it was written down in the 10th century. The author is unknown and the manuscript is kept in the British Museum (near Trafalgar Square). The story is very important as it allows us to lear about the way of life in the 4th century.

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English literature summary

English   literature   is   one   of   the  oldest   literatures   in   Europe;   dates   back   to   the   6th   century   AD.   Oral   literature,   i.e.   not   written   down,   spread   from   person   to   person.   In   449   AD   Anglo-­‐Saxon   tribes   invaded   England   –   beginning   of   the   Anglo-­‐Saxon   period   in   English   literature.  The  first  form  of  literature  was  folklore,  carried  by  scops  and  gleemen,  who   sang  in  alliterative  verse  (a  kind  of  simple  poetry).  Prose  developed  much  later.     The  first  form  of  recorded  English  literature  was  the  epic  Beowulf,  which  was  produced   sometime  near  the  end  of  the  7th  and  beginning �

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