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Present to: jessica del socorro garcía cardona
The Old English period
English literature begins with the Anglo-Saxon (45-1066), or Old English, period, which began approximately 410 A.D. when the Romans withdrew from Britain, leaving it to Germanic and Scandinavian settlers.
Historical context
Continuous context
Literary characteristics.
Major words
Important Authors
Themes and Ideas
The major concerns of English literature evolved along with the literary forms that sought to capture them.
The period is also known for its beautiful elegies, including "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer."
Old English poetry is alliterative, rather than rhyming, and is known for its use of the kenning, a compressed metaphor such as whale-road or night-stalker.
Anglo-Saxon poetry reflected the transition from traditional pagan beliefs to Christian ideas, and the struggle to blend the two into a new worldview.
The most famous example of Old English literature is the anonymous epic "Beowulf."
The Middle English period
The Norman Conquest worked no immediate transformation on either the language or the literature of the English. Older poetry continued to be copied during the last half of the 11th century; two poems of the early 12th century—“Durham,” which praises that city’s cathedral and its relics, and “Instructions for Christians,” a didactic piece—show that correct alliterative verse could be composed well after 1066.
Historical context
Continuous context
Literary characteristics.
Major words
Important Authors
The most idiosyncratic of these is the Ormulum by Orm, an Augustinian canon in the north of England.
The 13th century saw a rise in the popularity of long didactic poems presenting biblical narrative, saints’ lives, or moral instruction for those untutored in Latin or French.
Poems such as “Deor” and “Wulf and Eadwacer,” which have been called lyrics, are thematically different from those that began to circulate orally in the 12th century and to be written down in great numbers in the 13th.
The most frequent topics in the Middle English secular lyric are springtime and romantic love; many rework such themes tediously.
The most famous work in Middle English is "The Canterbury Tales" by Chaucer In the 18th century, such authors as Daniel Defoe, with his Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, and Henry Fielding and Tom Jones.
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The Old English period and the early Middle English period
Lizeth Alarcón
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Present for: lizeth catherine alarcon macias
Present to: jessica del socorro garcía cardona
The Old English period
English literature begins with the Anglo-Saxon (45-1066), or Old English, period, which began approximately 410 A.D. when the Romans withdrew from Britain, leaving it to Germanic and Scandinavian settlers.
Historical context
Continuous context
Literary characteristics.
Major words
Important Authors
Themes and Ideas The major concerns of English literature evolved along with the literary forms that sought to capture them.
The period is also known for its beautiful elegies, including "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer."
Old English poetry is alliterative, rather than rhyming, and is known for its use of the kenning, a compressed metaphor such as whale-road or night-stalker.
Anglo-Saxon poetry reflected the transition from traditional pagan beliefs to Christian ideas, and the struggle to blend the two into a new worldview.
The most famous example of Old English literature is the anonymous epic "Beowulf."
The Middle English period
The Norman Conquest worked no immediate transformation on either the language or the literature of the English. Older poetry continued to be copied during the last half of the 11th century; two poems of the early 12th century—“Durham,” which praises that city’s cathedral and its relics, and “Instructions for Christians,” a didactic piece—show that correct alliterative verse could be composed well after 1066.
Historical context
Continuous context
Literary characteristics.
Major words
Important Authors
The most idiosyncratic of these is the Ormulum by Orm, an Augustinian canon in the north of England.
The 13th century saw a rise in the popularity of long didactic poems presenting biblical narrative, saints’ lives, or moral instruction for those untutored in Latin or French.
Poems such as “Deor” and “Wulf and Eadwacer,” which have been called lyrics, are thematically different from those that began to circulate orally in the 12th century and to be written down in great numbers in the 13th.
The most frequent topics in the Middle English secular lyric are springtime and romantic love; many rework such themes tediously.
The most famous work in Middle English is "The Canterbury Tales" by Chaucer In the 18th century, such authors as Daniel Defoe, with his Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, and Henry Fielding and Tom Jones.
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