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Old English Literature -Middle English Literature-the Renaissance(文艺复兴)-The 17th Century-The 18th Century-English Romanticism-The Victorian Age-The 20th Century Old English literature Its roots lie deep in the tales of the Denmark and other Scandinavian countries. Until late in the 9th century, their close relations were broken because a great England monarch King Alfred broke the power of the Danes. The first work is ”Beowulf” It is a story about a hero Beowulf who did a lot of good things to his people around the 6th century. It pictured us a Denmark but not England scene. Beowulf , written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. A rich fabric of fact and fancy, Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic（史诗） in British literature The first page of the Beowulf manuscript. The English history: its foundation stone is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (编年史). It began by Alfred from the Roman invasion of Britain in 54 B.C. to the middle of the 12th century . Under the King’s direction, plenty of books from Europe in Latin on religion ,philosophy, and history were translated to the old England, still a wild and barbarous kingdom Middle English It is the true beginning of the magnificent heritage of English literature. Generally defined as 1100 to 1500. It developed slowly just like a small stream Geoffrey Chaucer(1340?1400) the greatest name in the Middle English literature . He is named in that trio of English poetry giants: Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. He was an experienced man. Even once served in the French wars and was taken in prisoner. Then for some reason he went to Italia ,which was a source for many of his later tales. Masterpiece: The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集 The Canterbury Tales It is a group of stories which were told by some pilgrims(圣地朝拜者). There are 24 tales in all . In this series of stories, Chaucer brought fresh vision. It’s i