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Vocabulary Questions 41-60
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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_).
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HW: Finish FD of College Essay #1
