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Part One: Early and Medieval English Literature
1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and
understatements
3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story
4. Ballad
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5. Character of Robin Hood
6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents;
124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic
couplet)
7. Heroic couplet (
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Part Two: The English Renaissance
8. The Authorized Version of English Bible and its significance9. Renaissance
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More??Utopia
11. Sonnet
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12. Blank verse
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13. Edmund Spenser
“The Faerie Queene”; Amoretti (collection of his sonnets)
Spenserian Stanza
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15. Christopher Marlowe (“Doctor Faustus” and his achievements)
Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in
the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th[1] to the early 11th century,[2] and
relates events described as having occurred in what is now Denmark and Sweden.
Commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf
has been the subject of much scholarly study, theory, speculation, discourse, and, at 3182
lines, has been noted for its length.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative
romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In
the tale, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious warrior who is completely
green, from his clothes and hair to his beard and skin. The
anyone to strike him with his axe if the challenger will take a return blow in a year and a
day. Gawain accepts, and beheads him in one blow, only to have the Green Knight stand
up, pick up his head, and remind Gawain to meet him at the appointed time
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A ballad is a poem usually set to music; thus, it often is a story told in a song[1]. Any myth
form may be told as a ballad, such as historical accounts or fairy tales in verse form. It
usually has foreshortened, alternating four-stress lines (
repeating rhymes, often with a refrain
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