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British PoetryFrom 449 to Present
A Multimedia Unitby Ed Emmett
Positive Outcomes Charter School193 S. Dupont Hwy.Camden, DE 19934
Let’s Get Started
Legal Stuff
• All videos used in this presentation have been downloaded from UnitedStreaming.com
• All music and sounds are part of the public domain and do not infringe on any copyright laws
What is this?
• This will be a fully integrated PowerPoint unit
• The entire unit will be presented in this manner
• There will be links throughout this presentation
Links
• There are many links throughout this presentation. These links will lead to the necessary application. These links may open Word, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer, Adobe Acrobat, or Image Viewer. The links will all look like this.
What it will not have
• Video of most of the authors (Most are no longer living)
• The actual authors reading parts (See above)
• A sequel
British PoetryTime Periods
• 449-1485• 1485-1625• 1625-1798 (Under Construction)
• 1798-1832 (Under Construction)
• 1832-Present (Under Construction)
449-1485Early British Empire to The Middle
Ages
“Who pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwiseking born of all England.”
-Sir Thomas Malory,from Morte d’Arthur
Significant Events
• 449 Anglo Saxon Invasion (Video)• 542 Plague kills half of the population• 591 China: Beginning of book printing• 731 Bede completes A History of English
Church and People• 750 Beowulf composed• 975 Saxon Monks copy Old English poems
into the Exeter book (Web)• 1066 Normans defeat Saxons (Video).
William the conqueror becomes King of England
• 1073 Canterbury becomes England’s religious center
• 1221 First known sonnet appears
Significant Events Continued
• 1348 Black Death begins sweep through England
• 1372 Bible first translated into English• 1375 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written• 1386 Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury
Tales• 1453 First Gutenberg Bible printed in Germany
(Web)• 1476 William Caxton builds first English
printing press• England at the End of Century (Video)
Literature of the Period
Saxon Literature • Started as oral traditions and not in books• Poems were recited at ceremonial occasions• Early poetry falls into two categories: heroic
poetry and elegiac poetry (glossary)• Beowulf is an example of heroic poetry• “The Wanderer” is an an example of a famous
elegiac poem (e-Version) (Web)
Life in the Time Period
• Anglo Saxon Life (Video)• Various Anglo Saxon Links
(Web)
Literature of the Period Continued
Middle English Literature • Falls into two main categories: secular and
religious• Usual topics of secular (Glossary) poetry are
love and nature• Begin to see ballads. (Glossary)• Early plays and poems were performed at
churches.
Cædmon
• Student PowerPoint Presentation(PowerPoint)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
• Early poems were based on the works of others
• Translated several French poems• Major work is the Canterbury
Tales• Considered the greatest English
Poet of his time period• Since his death, his poems have
never gone out of print
Canterbury Tales
• Only 24 of the projected 124 tales were finished
• In the tales, each character speaks of a pilgrimage (Glossary) to the cathedral of Canterbury
• The tales are told to a host in sequential order
Canterbury Tales Continued
• Each of the story tellers came from different section of medieval society
• Reader is given insight into all aspects of society
• Take a virtual tour of Canterbury (Web)Map of Canterbury Trail
Click to Enlarge
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
• We will be reading this poem from our textbooks on page 112
• After reading please refer to these notes for discussion (PDF)
Chaucer on the Web
• Chaucer Bio Page http://icg.harvard.edu/~chaucer/
• Electronic Version of the Canterbury Tales http://www.librarius.com/cantales.htm
• Middle English Collection of Texts http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/mideng.browse.html
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• No known author• Poet became know as the Pearl
poet• Written in 1375• Draws on the legends of King
Arthur (Glossary)• Two plots in the poem—the
beheading contest and the temptation
• Summary of Characters (Web)• Poem is found on page 142 of our
textbooks
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Continued
• Summary of the Story(Web)
• Study Questions (Web)• Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight Web Resources(Web)
Folk Ballads
• Read “Get Up and Bar the Door”(Word) or pg.173 of text
• Hear “Get Up and Bar the Door”(Sound File)
• Discussion and Review Questions(Web)
• Music used to sing this ballad (Music)
• Search Web for Articles on “Get Up and Bar the Door” (Web)
Additional Links for 449-1485
• http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/oe/oe-texts.html
• http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/authors/caedmon.html
DITC Instruction PPT
1485-1625Reformation and Restoration
“What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! In
action how like an angel!”-William Shakespeare,
from Hamlet
Significant Events
• 1492 Columbus landed in America• 1503 Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona
Lisa• 1519 Magellan sails around the world• 1520 Thomas Moore publishes Utopia• 1534 Church of England (Video)
established• 1563 20,000 Die in plague• 1564 Shakespeare Born• 1567 2 Million die of typhoid• 1590 Edmund Spenser publishes The
Faerie Queen
Significant Events
• 1594 Shakespeare composes Romeo and Juliet
• 1599 Globe Theatre opens• 1605 Cervantes publishes Don Quixote• 1607 Colony at Jamestown established• 1611 King James Bible published
Literature of the Period
Elizabethan Poetry• English Literature Matures• Lyric Poetry (Glossary) becomes favored• Narrative Poems (Glossary) decrease in
popularity• About Sonnets (Web)• Sonnet cycles (Glossary) are created• Love becomes a major element• Religion begins to take a back seat• The Church has fallen out of prominence