of a hero, often a national hero who embodies national ideas · 3182 = 80 or 90 pages in book lenght · two parts: 1st - Beowulf's battle with Grendel and Grendel's mother, 2nd - aged Beowulf's victory over a dragon, death and funeral Background of Beowulf: · primitive and harsh environment · great importance · wars - life brief, fate ruled over human beings · Beowulf - sense of fatal doom, dark and sombre tone · fate and fame - vital ideas in the literature of Anglo-Saxon period · Beowulf - monsters slaying in Scandinavia = struggles between good and evil Christian Poetry · 55 B.C. Julius Ceasar - christianity to British Isles · 449 A.D Anglo-Saxons - pagans = christianity declined · 597 A.D. St. Augustine - within 100 years all country into christianity Caedmon and Alfred the Great Ceadmon · first religious poet of British literature
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Result: kind of frustration, because existing forms of poetic expression were inadequate to what they really wanted to say. Together they represent move away from the public themes dominating Augustan age towards poetry more domestic and personal. Too often some banality, but some lyrics are delicately moving. Edward Young: The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality – melancholy meditations Robert Blair: the mood of Youngs and his major poems are predominantly sombre, reflective, melancholic, and moral. Both Central members of a loose groupng „The Graveyard Poets”. The Grave – a dramatic evocation of the horrors of corruption and of the solitude of death. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard – draws together feelings of the era. Sense of isolation, withrawal into inner self, poet as man of feeling meditating on obscurity and death, time and history, fame and passion. 32. The „Comedy of Manners” (Goldsmith, Sheridan)
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