LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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The Modernist Movement
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Elizabethan Era
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Victorian Era
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Old English
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Detailed explanation-1: -Beowulf is a classic work of Old English literature. While it may have not been the first piece of literature ever written in English, it is the oldest extant, or surviving, work in that language.
Detailed explanation-2: -The author of Beowulf is unknown. It is possible that the poem was composed by and transmitted between several different poets before it was preserved in a single manuscript that dates to about 1000.
Detailed explanation-3: -First battle: Grendel Beowulf begins with the story of Hrothgar, who constructed the great hall, Heorot, for himself and his warriors. In it, he, his wife Wealhtheow, and his warriors spend their time singing and celebrating.
Detailed explanation-4: -Poets. Most Old English poems are recorded without authors, and very few names are known with any certainty; the primary three are Cædmon, Aldhelm, and Cynewulf.