CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The oldest surviving epic poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, dates from the 3rd millennium BCE in Sumer (in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq), and was written in cuneiform script on clay tablets and, later, on papyrus. The Istanbul tablet #2461, dating to c.

Detailed explanation-2: -Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English poetry followed by Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Toru Dutt, among others.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nissim Ezekie may be justifiably called the father of post-independence and modern poetry of India and, through the influence of Indian literature on the entire subcon-tinent, the father of the postcolonial South Asian English poetry as well.

Detailed explanation-4: -The earliest surviving English poetry, written in Anglo-Saxon, the direct predecessor of modern English, may have been composed as early as the 7th century.