English Literature

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) English prose that is left to us. Here and there stirring songs are ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) probably by a tribe of Jutes, under chiefs called by the chron- icl ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) burh, Deor’s Lament, Riddles, Exodus, The Christ, Andreas, Dream of ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) history ever appealed to you as a work of literature? What lit- era ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) poems? Would the harp add anything to our modern poetry? What is m ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION THE NORMANS.The name Norman, which is a softened form o ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) into the most polished and intellectual people in all Europe. The union of Nors ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) centuries after Hastings French was the language of the up- per classes, of cou ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) tual distrust was overcome the two races gradually united, and out of this unio ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) mans or French could boast at that time; their prose especially was unparallele ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) people could not read, and had only a few songs and bal- lads for their literar ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH. (d. 1154). Geoffrey’sHis- toria Regum Britanniaeis notewo ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) preposterous chronicle appeared, these legends had not been used to any extent ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) the land to procure noble books for authority. He took the En- glish book that ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) And ich wulle varen to Avalun: And I will fare to Avalun, To vairest alre maide ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) fair ladies, their perilous adventures and tender love-making, their minstrelsy ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) concerning one hero were gathered together and theGestebe- came an epic, like t ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) The most interesting of all Arthurian romances are those of the Gawain cycle,[5 ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) The second canto of the poem describes Gawain’s long journey through the wilder ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) and wounds him. Whereupon Gawain jumps for his armor, draws his sword, and warn ...