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Descriptive sketch- English Honours Paper 101
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- 1BeowulfAnonymous Anglo-Saxon poet
750 AD
Wessex Dialect
Mercian and Northumbrian
Nowell Codex
Longest epic in English literature
3182 alliterative lines - 2Ralph Roister DoisterNicholas Udall
Published in 1567, eleven years after death
Assumed composition in 1552
First comic poem
Inspired by Plautus and Terence
Incorporating conventions, structures, and styles of ancient Greek and Roman comedies with English theatrical tradition. - 3Sir Gawain and the Green KnightAnonymous authorhood, Pearl poet or Gawain Poet
14th-century chivalric Arthurian romance
North-west midland dialect
2530 alliterative verses in 101 stanzas
Cotton Nero A.X
Welsh, Irish, English, French chivalric tradition - 4William Langland14th-century poet
Presumed author of 'The Books of Piers, the Plowman'
Born in West Midlands of England
Son of Oxfordshire gentleman
Educated in the Priory of Great Malvern
A prophet, a reformer, a satirist and a good samaritan
Died in 1385-86 supposedly
A-text: 1360s, B-text, C-text:1837 - 5Anglo-Saxon ChronicleFirst continuous English history
From 9th century to 12th century Wessex
Series of Annals- Julius Caesar to 1154
Systematised and encouraged by King Alfred, the Great
Records of incidents taken place during the rule of various kings - 6GorboducTragedy of Ferrex and Porrex
Written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville
First regular English tragedy- blank verse
Acted in 1561, Printed in 1565
Origin in the history book 'Geoffrey of Monmouth'
Presented to Queen Elizabeth
Senecan model
Differs from Morality tradition and the Aristotelian unities of time and place - 7The Faerie QueeneWritten by Edmund Spenser
Spenserian stanza
First three volumes published in 1589
6 books: Holiness, temperance, chastity, friendship, justice, and courtesy
Title of 'The poet's poet'
Knight represented Moral virtue
Allegorical poem - 8The Sea FarerLyric poem narrating the actualities of ocean life and seamanship
Allegorical meaning of the transient pain and joy on earth in contrast to the everlasting bliss of the heavenly kingdom
124 lines recorded in the Exeter book
Capricious mistress having contrasting and strict character
Minor melody
A feeling of gratitude yet the longing pain
Mercurial person - 9The WandererUnknown authorhood of Old English Poetry
Exeter book ,115 lines of alliterative verse
Lyrical poem of exquisite beauty
Poet in distress at the loss of his lord and fellow comrade
Elegiac mood
Three Phases -
A solitary man
A man with a troubled mind
A man with a wise mind
'Wisdom Poem'
Note of separation and bereavement
Recalls days of happy youth in the time of distress - 10The Spanish Tragedy
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