We Visit Istanbul, not Constantinople

Poetry: RJ13: Read six examples in class.

Coppee ch. X:
1. How did the fall of Constantinople (1453) affect English literature?
2. What did Johannes Gutenberg's printing press (1436...)mean for England?
a. first thirty years
b. thereafter

HW: Terms and Vocab. through 90

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Coppee VIII-X

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

Thanks, Ryan.

Here's an interesting article that follows in our cryogenics discussion.

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