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Title: The Anglo Saxon Period
Description: Origin of Language,The first Poetry,Christian writers,Northumbrian Literature etc...
Description: Origin of Language,The first Poetry,Christian writers,Northumbrian Literature etc...
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THE ANGLO SAXON PERIOD
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These three tribes(Anglo Saxon)left their homeland in the shore of North Sea and Beltic and colonized
and conquer Britain
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By gradual change this become first Englelond and then England
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LIFE:The Anglo Saxon lived a Barbarous lifestyle
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Their lives and imagination was filled with dark and gloomy
atmosphere with the notions of Dragons monster and other evil shape
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-The first thing we notice about these big,fearless almost childish men is that they love the
sea
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-These men were not only Barbarians but they were men with strong and profound emotions
which is vividly revealed in their Literature
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-It is this hidden life of the Anglo Saxon that finds expression in all their Literature
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Origin of Language: The Language of Agnlo Saxon has Teutonic origin
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Christian writers of Anglo Saxon Period: The Literature of the period falls into two division-Pagan and
Christian
(1) Pagan or Heroic Literature: The poetry which the Anglo Saxon Probably brought
with them in the form of Oral Saga
(2) Christian writers of Anglo Saxon Period: The writings developed under the
teachings of the Monks,after the old Pagan had vanished yet while the pagan
literature still retain its hold on the life and language of the people
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(1)Under the leadership of Augustine who came from rome
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(2)Northumbrian School:Under the leadership of Aidan who came from England
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The school produced three greatest name of the Anglo Saxon Literature,namely(a) BEDE(673-735): He is called the father of English Learning
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He wrote exclusively in Latin
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(b)CAEDMUN(7thCentury):If Baewulf and other fragments of poetry were brought
into England then Caedmun would be the first poet who composed the first
verse in all native English song
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He
was also known as the Anglo Saxon’s Milton
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(c)CYNEWULF(8th Century):He is the only one of the early poets who signed his
work
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The other poetry which were unsigned yet attributed to him were,
Phoenix,dream of the rood,the descent into hell,Guthlac,wanderer
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DECLINE OF NORTHUMBRIAN LITERATURE: With the invasion of Danes, monasteries and school were
destroyed
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awith
this conquest of Northumbrian ends the poetic period of the Anglo Saxon Literature
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ALFRED (848-901)
His good work include:
(1)Education of half a country
(2)Salvage of a nobel native Literature
(3)Creation of the first English prose
The most important work of this age is the Anglo Saxon Chronicle which was revised and enlarged by
Alfred and which was continued for more than two centuries
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Title: The Anglo Saxon Period
Description: Origin of Language,The first Poetry,Christian writers,Northumbrian Literature etc...
Description: Origin of Language,The first Poetry,Christian writers,Northumbrian Literature etc...