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Beowulf: Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631). 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 in British literature.?Poets’ Corner?:One of the best known parts of Westminster Abbey, Poets Corner can be found in the South Transept. It was not originally designated as the burial place of writers, playwrights and poets; ???the first poet to be buried here, Geoffrey Chaucer, was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey because he had been Clerk of Works to the palace of Westminster, not because he had written the Canterbury Tales. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)Chaucer’s Literary Career:Works translated from FrenchWorks adapted from the Italian3) Purely English worksThe Tabard Inn was established in the Medieval Period. It is famous as the place owned by Harry Bailey the host in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and is described in the first few lines of Chaucer’s work as the location where the pilgrims first meet on their journey to Canterbury. The Tabard Inn, around 1850 Chapter 2Thomas More ? (1478 - 1535)(B.I,P.33………… Utopia:Utopia is Mores masterpiece, written in the form of a con-versation between More and Hythloday, a returned voyager. It is divided into two books. The first book contains a long discussion on the social conditions of England. In the second book is described in detail an ideal communist society, Utopia. The name Utopia comes from two Greek words meaning no place and was adopted by More as the name of his ideal commonwealth.(P.39.Sonnet is a poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, restricted to a definite rhyme scheme. The term sonnet derives from the Latin sonitus (meaning sound) and the Italian sonetto (meaning sound, song) English sonnets, in terms of structure, largely fall into two classes: the Petrarchian or Italian form and the Shakespearian or English form. Shakespearean sonnet， consi