English literature summary
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
of
the
8th
century.
It
has
no
known
single
author
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