《英美文学教学资料》literary+History+revised.docVIP

English Literary History I. Old and Medieval English Literature (from 450 to 1066, and from 1066 to the second half of the 14th century) The period of old English literature extends from about 450 to 1066, the year of the Norman conquest of England. The basis of Modern English is Anglo-Saxon language, which was brought from Europe to England by the Germanic tribes. Old English poetry can be divided into two groups: the religious group that is mainly on biblical themes and the secular one that evokes the Anglo-Saxon sense of the harshness of circumstance and the sadness of the human lot. B