Wednesday
1. Collect essays
2. Coppee
Ch. VIII: Reforms, Richard and John, Wiclif, the clergy
Ch. IX: Social life, chivalry, charters (Magna Carta, etc.)
Ch. X: Greek, printing, poets...but a general dearth.
3. Read Chaucer
a. Life and Works Introduction
b. "Prologue"
HW: Finish the Prologue
Coppee III-VII
Tuesday
Per. 1 Peer edit RD
Vocabulary Questions 41-60
Coppee
Ch. III:
Anglo-Saxon (German; see tree); earliest great Saxon poem is Beowulf
Caedmon 600’s
Ch. IV Bede (672-735); Alfred the Great (849-901); Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (late 800’s—1154)
Ch. V Norman Rule (1066 Battle of Hastings), Oxford, Cambridge, Culture, Latin, Catholicism
Ch. VI The Morning Twilight: Beginnings of a new poetry
Ch. VII Chaucer (1343--1400) and the Early Reformation. Chaucer is the father of English Poetry for his form, craft, subtly, and choice of English as the language of his poetry. Canterbury Tales begun in 1386, never finished. Trolius and Creseide was prob. what he would have thought his best work. He was one of the the first English poets to employ rhyme royal, iambic pentameter, and herioc couplets. In a time when writing was taken seriously when written in Latin, he wrote in his vernavular (Middle English). Incidentally, this was also Dante's route (for his _Divine Comedy_).
Work on RD
HW: Finish FD of College Essay #1
Wyrd Words: Dr. Peter Leithart and Beowulf
I. Pray
II. See original examples.
III. Review Leithart on Germanic Literature.
1. What insight concerning the nature of the Christian missionary work in the north does Heliand give?
2. Compare this with what you know of missionary work in other areas.
IV. Review Leithart on Beowulf's background.
1. Are the monsters in Beowulf folkloric intrusions? If so, why? If not, why not?
2. Consider the three feats of Beowulf and what each threat symbolizes.
V. Begin ch. 4 in Coppee's literature.
HW: Read chapters 4-6
II. See original examples.
III. Review Leithart on Germanic Literature.
1. What insight concerning the nature of the Christian missionary work in the north does Heliand give?
2. Compare this with what you know of missionary work in other areas.
IV. Review Leithart on Beowulf's background.
1. Are the monsters in Beowulf folkloric intrusions? If so, why? If not, why not?
2. Consider the three feats of Beowulf and what each threat symbolizes.
V. Begin ch. 4 in Coppee's literature.
HW: Read chapters 4-6
Marriage from the Book of Common Prayer
The Book of Common Prayer (1662): The Solemnization of Marriage
These are good words to be reminded of. Lewis opens his novel with the third reason given, which encourages us to consider the first two.
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