ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The most important work of literature written in Old English is the epic poem Beowulf.” No one known the name of Beowulf’s author, but scholars believe that the poem was composed sometime in the late 10th or early 11th centuries AD. Only one copy of Beowulf has survived to the modern era.

Detailed explanation-2: -In descending order of quantity, Old English literature consists of: sermons and saints’ lives; biblical translations; translated Latin works of the early Church Fathers; chronicles and narrative history works; laws, wills and other legal works; practical works on grammar, medicine, and geography; and poetry.

Detailed explanation-3: -Beowulf. Beowulf is an Old English epic poem which survives in a single precious manuscript.

Detailed explanation-4: -Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature – of which the best-known example is the epic poem Beowulf – flourished from the sixth century CE until the Norman Conquest.