文档介绍：Old English Period (450-1066)
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Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)
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John Milton (1608-1674)
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John Bunyan (1628-1688)
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
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Robert Burns (1759-1796)
William Blake (1757-1827)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
e Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
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Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
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Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
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e Eliot (1819-1880)
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John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Old English Period (450-1066)
Old English poetry
the religious group (on biblical themes)
the secular group
Beowulf
the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons
romantic
typical example of Old English poetry
represented the pagan poetry
alliteration
England was conquered by the Romans (55 BC), the Anglo-Saxons (410 AD), and the Normans (1066 AD).
The Anglo-Saxons brought to England the Germanic language and cultur