LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Question
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Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?
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Beowulf
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Canterbury Tales
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The Domesday Book
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Sons and Lovers
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Which period of English literature came first? The first historical period of English Literature is the Old English Period or The Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1066).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Laws of Aethelberht I of Kent, written at the turn of the 7th century, are the earliest surviving English prose work.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the European tradition the earliest surviving poems, the Homeric and Hesiodic epics, identify themselves as poems to be recited or chanted to a musical accompaniment rather than as pure song.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tennyson, poet of love and loss.
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