British Literature 1. the Middle Ages the oldest literature monument of the Anglo – Saxon period is the old Germanic legend called BEOWULF. This heroic poem is about the strong and courageous pagan hero Beowulf John Wycliffe – is a professor of Oxford University. With his students he translated the whole Bible into English - he influenced Master Jan Hus and our Hussite movement very much 2. the renaissance and humanism Geoffrey Chaucer – Canterbury Tales – brilliant portrait of 30 pilgrims
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British Literature II March 2‚ 2012 Final Paper Romantic and Victorian Literature and writers have an endless about of similarities that make both of them the overall most influential eras of literature. It is in following paragraphs I will attempt to bring together the most fascinating points and authors that built the road on which future writers try to compare their works to these masterminds. It is in the social issues‚ religious doubts and social prosecutions that have previously withheld
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Intro to British Literature 25 October 2013 Dr. Faustus and Paradise Lost There are many similarities between the Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and Paradise Lost by John Milton; thematically they both share the same a great deal in common. In Paradise Lost and in Dr. Faustus the main characters are both on a long quest for knowledge believing that there will be some kind of great reward at the end of their quest‚ but in the end their reward was nothing but suffering and pain. Sadly I also
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A: In British literature‚ monsters are used as a tool for what the people of the Middle Ages believed they were supposed to do and created these monsters to be portrayed as something “bad” towards humanity. All of the monsters mentioned do share a few common characteristics of what they were supposed to do in British literature. To start‚ the monsters all inhabit some space outside of the realm of human civilization because they cannot or don’t want to be a part of the human world due to how different
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An Analysis of British Literature Death is inevitable and what happens after death will always be a mystery to the living. For this reason‚ the afterlife has always been a topic which artists have chosen to explore in their works. Throughout the chronology of British literature‚ artists have used society’s views as a basis to examine the afterlife‚ and look at it in new ways. The afterlife has been a theme in British Literature from the Anglo-Saxon period of Beowulf to the twentieth century
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Late Medieval Period 14th Century British Literature 14th and 15th were period of transition from feudalism to pre-industrial era. A time of political‚ social and ideological conflicts; England was in war with France (the hundred year war 1337-1453 Edward’s claim to the French throne and attempt to bring England‚ Gascony and Flanders under unified political control). The defeats in France lead to deepening the internal crisis. The decline in agriculture together with the rise in the population
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Jonathan Swift Alexander Pope Samuel Johnson James Boswell Group 1 Olaudah Equiano 18th Century writers Thomas Gray The Realists Oliver Goldsmith The Neoclassical Age Basic Idea of the Realists: They valued order‚ with systems and organizations. (many examples of this in Gulliver’s Travels‚ when he would bow down to the king of lilyput mainly because he respects the hieriarchy‚ Swift is trying to show how ridiculous this is. Plus some other things…) There was a hiearachy
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(449-1966) Historical background The Anglo-Saxons tribes arrived in Great Britain at the beginning of the 5th century. There were Germanic invaders who had already settled in England as mercenaries. They crossed the North Sea and they killed many British inhabitants or pushed them towards Wales‚ Cornwall ans Scotland. Together with them a small group of Danes‚ called the Jutes‚ arrived in the south of Great Britain‚ together with the Anglo-Saxons‚ in the same period. When these Germanic tribes arrived
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G. Rudzewicz June‚ 2013 A SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE USING PUBLIC DOMAIN E-TEXTS I. The Anglo-Saxon Period A. Beowulf Gutenberg Project‚ e-text #981 B. The Seafarer C. Supplementary links a. suttonhoo.org b. staffordshirehoard.org.uk c. labyrinth.georgetown.edu II. The Middle Ages A. The Canterbury Tales‚ GP etext#2383 1. General Prologue 2. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” 3. “The Pardoner’s Tale” B. Popular Lyrics and Ballads C. Everyman GP etext#19481‚ Ernest Phelps‚ ed
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Amanda Caruso November 28‚ 2011 British Literature III Close Reading 3 September 1‚ 1939: W.H Auden’s Call to Anarchy The title of W.H. Auden’s poem “September 1‚ 1939‚” may lead some to believe that the poem is meant as a criticism of Nazi Germany’s decision to invade Poland. It is easy to assume that “September 1‚ 1939” is making reference to this historic event; however‚ the invasion of Poland also marked a major turning point in the war. The poem’s footnotes indicate
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