英国文学复习要点.docxVIP

英国文学复习要点： 英语及英语文学历史演变 1. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke French. It was Normans and Anglo-Saxons, the two conquests that provided the source for the rise and growth of English literature. The Germanic tribes from Europe who overrun to England in the 5th century brought with them the Old English, or Anglo-Saxon language, which is the basis of Modern English. Geoffrey Chaucer, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340s. Among the great Middle English poets, Geo