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The Anglo-Saxon Period ⅠBasic concepts and requirements of this course 1. what’s literature? ?? In English, we use the word in at least two different senses:very often it simply means anything that is written: timetables, catalogues, text-books, travel brochures (booklet/ pamphlet). In this broad sense, an account of yesterday’s football match or an advertisement of soap powder, is as much literature as the Dialogues of Plato or the novels of D. H. Lawrence. But when we talk about English literature as we do in this course, we are using the word in a different, and perhaps more serious sense