HISTORY OF BRITISH LITERATURE FROM ORIGINS TO THE AGE OF REASON

INA MITITELU

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CONTENTS:
1. Course Contents and the Compulsory Works for Reading……… 3
2. The Anglo–Saxon Period…………………………………………… 4
3.Assignments for the Seminar on Beowulf…………………………… 8
4.The Medieval Period……………………………………………….. 10
5.The Renaissance Period……………………………………………… 18
6.The Enlightenment Period………………………………………….. 36
7.Guidelines to Analyzing Poetry………………………………………4\

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COURSE CONTE NTS ACCORDING TO THE CURRICULUM
I.
The Anglo
–
Saxon Period:
Britain before the Anglo
–
Saxons
The Germanic Invasions
Anglo
–
Saxon Society
Anglo
–
Saxon Literature
II. The
Medieval Period:
The N
orman Conquest
The Reign of William the C
onqueror and the Feudal System
The Medieval Church
The Medieval Literature
III.
The Renaissance Period:
The Renaissance Spirit
The Tudor Monarchs and the English Reformation
The Elizabethan Era
Humanism
Renaissanc
e Literature
IV.
The Enlightenment Period:
The Age of Reason; Restoration England
The Glorious Revolution
The Revolution in Agriculture and Industry
Early Neoclassical Literature
From Neoclassicism to Romanticism
Compulsory Works for Readin
g
:
1.
Beowulf
;
2.
Jeoffrey Chauc
er “Canterbury Tales
”; The Prologue and Tales;
3. Edmund Spencer,
Sonnet 30
;
4.
William Shakespeare.
Sonnet
130
.
Tragedy
Hamle
t;
5.
John Dryden.
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
;
6.
Alexander Pope
–
from “Essay on Criticism”
–
Epigrams
.
7.
Robert Burns.
To Joe Anderso
n, My Joe