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1 The Anglo-Saxons (450-1100) Epics (A Long narrative poem presented in an elevated style, relating the heroic deeds of noble and semi divine personages) “Beowulf” the national epic the only surviving full-length epic in Old English, composed during the eighth century. The poem narrates the heroic deeds of Beowulf who kills the dragon Grendal and his mother, and later becomes the king of Geat. He dies in killing a dragon. Lyrics and Riddles The lyric presents a more personal and emotional form of poetry than the epic. The riddle, a form of poetry in which an object or person is described in a rather ambiguous manner. 2 The Medieval Period(1100-1500) 中世纪时期 Folk ballads 民间歌谣 (Songs sung by the common people of England.) Romances 浪漫诗 (verse narrative that sings of knightly adventures, heroic deeds, chivalric love of the Middle Ages in Europe) Sir Gawain and the Green knight 高文爵士与绿衣骑士 (1360—1370, Alliterative and metrical) Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400, the founder of English poetry, the Father of English literature, heroic couplets) The Book of the Duchess 公爵夫人之书 The House of Fame 声誉之宫 Troylus and Criseyde 特洛伊罗斯与克丽西达 The Legend of Good Women 贤妇传奇 The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集 （1387-1400, The 29 Pilgrims(清教徒) 24 tales) 3 The Renaissance (1500-1650) 文艺复兴 (Humanism 人道主义) I. The rise of the Renaissance under the early Tudor monarchs (1500-1558) 都铎王朝 Poetry The poetry of Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, they introduced the Italian sonnet to England. Elaborate Renaissance conventions