literatura angielska

tacitus

germania, a first century book about the people of the north

gildas sapiens

de excidio britanniae, a welsh latin report on anglo-saxon conquest of celtic britain

beda venerabilis

ecclesiastical history of the english people, history of anglo-saxon england focusing on christianity

nennius

historia brittonum

exeter book

riddles, elegies, religious poems, exeter cathedral

junius manuscript

caedmon manuscript, religious poems, old testament paraphrase, italy

the battle of finnsburgh

battle of 937, mentioned in beowulf

the battle of brunanburh

about the victory of the saxon king athelstan over norse invaders

the battle of moldon

destroyed in 1731

major qualities of anglo-saxon heroic poetry

rhytmical alliterative verse, kenning, appositive phrase, periphrase

values promoted in anglo-saxon heroic poetry

martial, prowess, courage, loyalty, trustworthiness, revenge

elegy

compelling, short poems, compact, lyrical in tone, powerful imagery

major themes of elegies

lordlessness, deserted hall, vanity, wordly life, exile, suffering, mutability, decay

caedmon's scriptural poems

junius manuscript: genesis, exodus, daniel, christ and satan

beowulf manuscript

judith

cynewulf

possibly bishop of lindisfarne, exeter book: juliana, gythlac, christ, vercelli manuscript: andreas, elene, the dream of the rood

aldhelm

bishop of sherborne, letters and educational prose

alcuin

charlemagne's advisor of york, letters, poems, educational prose

alfred, king's of wessex translations

beda's eccleasiastical history, st augustine's soliloquies, pope gregory's cura pastoralis, drosius' historia adversus paganos, boethius' consolatio philosophiae

roman de larose

chaucer's translation of the romance by jean de melin and gullame the lorris

the book of the duchess

elegy on the death of blanche of lancaster

parliament of fowles

a discussion of the nature of courtly love in a dream vision form

the house of fame

unfinished dream vision on the fickleness of fame and fortune

troilus and criseyde

a trojan story of love and infidelity based on boccacio's il filostrato

the legend of good waomen

a collection of tales about faithful women, unfinished

chaucer's translation

roman de larose, consolatio philosophiae. the treatise of astrolabe

aelfric

abbot of eynsham, catholic homilies, lives of the saints, colloquy

wulfstan

archibishop of york, homilies, sermo lupi ad anglos

sermo lupi ad anglos

educational sermon of 1014 that shows invasion of the danes as god's punishment for the sins of anglo-saxons

erasmus of rotterdam

brought human thought to england, the praise of holly

the praise of holly

reiterates najor christian ideas

humanism

begginings associated with the growth of italian cities, great fortune of noble families and reform of universities, wchich revived their interest in classical writings and art

early english humanists

john colet, thomas more, roger ascham, thomas elyot

john colet

dean of st paul's cathedral

thomas more

author of utopia

roger ascham

tutor of elizabeth

thomas elyot

author of the book named the governour

tudor sonneters

thomas wyatt, henry howard

thomas wyatt

translations and imitations of petrarch's sonnets

henry howard

earl of surray, translation of virgil's aeneid first time blank verse used in english

howard's and wyatt's poetry first published

in tottel's miscellany, after their deaths

elizabethan poets

sir philip sidney, edmund spenseer, christopher marlowe, william shakespeare

sir philip sidney

prominent courtier of elizabeth, an apology for poetry-an essay on the nature of the poetry, arcadia-pastoral romance, astrophel and stella-first sonnet sequence in english

edmund spenser

shephard's callendar-collection of pastoral poems amoretti-sequence of love sonnets, the faerie queen-allegorical chivalry romance, epithalamion-wedding poem offered to his bride elizabeth

christopher marlowe

hero and leander-narrative poem about two mythological lovers, the passionate shepherd to his love

william shakespeare

venus and adonis, the rape of lucrece, sonnets

venus and adonis

narrative poem on the nature of love based on ovid's metamorphoses

the rape of lucrece

grave poem based on classical story of the rape of lucrece

sonnets

a serious of witty compact meditations on life and death, passing of time, love etc