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Part One: Early and Medieval English Literature
1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements
3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story
4. Ballad(名词解释) soil
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6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic couplet)
7. Heroic couplet (名词解释)
Part Two: The English Renaissance
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8. The Authorized Version of English Bible and its significance9. Renaissance(名词解释)
10.Thomas More??Utopia
11. Sonnet(名词解释)
12. Blank ver(名词解释)
13. Edmund Spenr
“The Faerie Queene”; Amoretti (collection of his sonnets)
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Spenrian Stanza(名词解释) mmax
15. Christopher Marlowe (“Doctor Faustus” and his achievements)
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Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th[1] to the early 11th century,[2] and rel
ates events described as having occurred in what is now Denmark and Sweden. Commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf has been the subject of much scholarly study, theory, speculation, discour, and, at 3182 lines, has been noted for its length.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In the tale, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious warrior who is completely green, from his clothes and hair to his beard and skin. The "Green Knight" offers to allow anyone to strike him with his axe if the challenger will take a return blow in a year and a day. Gawain accepts, and beheads him in one blow, only to have the Green Knight stand up, pick up his head, and remind Gawain to meet him at the appointed time
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A ballad is a poem usually t to music; thus, it often is a story told in a song[1]. Any myth form may be told as a ballad, such as historical accounts or fairy tales in ver form. It usually has foreshortened, alternating four-stress lines ("ballad meter") and simple repeating rhymes, often with a refrain
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Robin Hood is an archetypal figure in English folklore, who story originates from medieval times but who remains significant in popular culture where he is known for robbing the rich to give to the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny. His band includes "three score" group of fellow outlawed yeomen – called his "Merry Men".[1] He has been the subject of numerous films, television ries, books, comics, and plays. In the earliest sources Robin Hood is a commoner, but he would often later be portrayed as the dispossd Earl of Huntingdon
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400?) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father of English literature, Chaucer is credited by some scholars as the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin.
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heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly ud for epic and narrative poetry; it refers to poems constructed from a quence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines. The rhyme is always masculine. U of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is also widely credited with first extensive u of iambic pentameter
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The Authorized King James Version is an English translation of the Christian Bible begun in 1604 and first published in 1611 by the Church of England. The Great Bible was the first "authorized version" issued by the Church of England in the reign of King Henry VIII.[4] In January 1604, King James I of England convened the Hampton Court Conference where a new English version was conceived in respon to the perceived problems of the earlier translations as detected by the Puritans, a faction within the Church of England.
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The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth"; Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere "be born")[1] was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also ud more looly to refer to the historic era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not uniform, this is a very general u of the term.
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