ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles, and others. In all there are about 400 surviving manuscripts from the period, a significant corpus of both popular interest and specialist research.

Detailed explanation-2: -2.1. Romance became the most popular form of literature during the Anglo-Norman or Middle English period. These romances were famous for their stories rather than poetry. Most of them, in fact, had their origin in Latin and French sources.

Detailed explanation-3: -The literature of the Anglo-Saxons (c. 450–1100) is abundant in heroic, or epic, poetry: narrative poems which recount the deeds of heroic figures who overcome significant challenges in the pursuit of goals that were deemed virtuous by the standards of the day.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Anglo –Saxon Poetry There are two types of Old English poetry: the heroic, the sources of which are pre‐Christian Germanic myth, history, and custom; and the Christian.

Detailed explanation-5: -the most important formal aspects of Anglo-Saxon poetry were stress and alliteration, that is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound. Each line was divided into two halves by a break or caesura and had 4 stresses.