第五讲ElizabethanProseFrancisBacon.pptVIP

* * Elizabethan Prose and Francis Bacon (1561- 1626) I. The Beginning of English Prose * Prose – the product of civilization: early verse came from oral expression of man’s feelings while prose, meant to record and reason, is more written product; * English prose in Old/ Middle English period (not much): The Venerable Bede (673-735): (in Latin) Ecclesiastical History of English People; Alfred the Great (849- 901): The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle * Sir Thomas Malory (1405-1471): A lawless aristocrat who had a long series of arrests and imprisonments since 1451. Morte