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ENGLISH LITERATURE
English literature
This section we want to dedicate it to a fascinating field of the London and English world in kind. The Literature.
There would be from writing or to bring back entire books, much rich one introduces the English literature; we do not have the pretension to arrive a lot sure but, pian slowly, to bring back what for our modest one to seem it has been, it is and it will be the English literary world. We will in the first place try to bring back to great lines main the thematic succedutasi in the time. One small reassumed drawn from the cues of "Encarta" where you can find the deepenings for every single argument. We will try, then, of dealing the authors whom to more they have been involved us and that they narrate of the places and people of our London mistress. We will fish here and articles and indications drawn from other situated ones and written, trying to cite the every source time that this is indicated. We will evidence the critics main because you can read to various opinions on one same argument. All with the hope of being it pardons you for the presunzione to insert in situated "light" like Londonservice, thematic therefore important ones like the English Literature, the English theatre, English music and cosi talking.
The Anglo-Saxon period or of the Old English
The so-called Anglo-Saxon period covers along time arc that goes from the 405 to 1066, the year of the battle of Hastings and of the conquest normanna of England. The tribes who subentrarono to the Roman in the territories of the Britain imported, through the Old English , also a specific poetica tradition, whose characteristic form them amazingly remained constant until the term of the Anglo-Saxon dominion, that coincided with the conquest normanna and the takeover of an aristocracy francofona.
Poetry
Great part of the poetica production of this period came sung, with accompanyment of the ARPA, from the bards Anglo-Saxons. The atmospheres and the topics of the compositions were legacies to great myths and the heroes of the Germanic epica; the backs introduced metric characters of the all particular, which the rhyme absence and the frequent use of allitterazioni ; every towards, moreover, variable in the number of the sillabe, it had four accents.
Such elements find again themselves in the Beowulf , poema epico written from an author ignoto at the beginning of VIII the century. In the work they come narrated the gesta of a hero of the Scandinavian culture that tries to destroy the Grendel monster and a terrible one I dredge; this, before being victim of a murder, succeeds in iniettargli a poison in a position to condurlo to the dead women. The extreme sacrifice of Beowulf celebrates the generosity and the loyalty of the monarch in the comparisons of its sudditi ones, and the ideals of fidelity, courage and abnegation of the great Anglo-Saxon guerrieri. More than others poemi of the period, as the battle of Brunanburh and the battle of Maldon , the epica of Beowulf succeeds to express the cultural essence of the late aganism, already permeated from the influence of the Christian thought. The famous one above all in the conception of the human destiny, that it seems to depend less and less on arbitrary fato and more and more, instead, from the divine justice. The evangelizzazione of the tribes pays some, in fact, it was begun already from the century and came celebrated to YOU from numerous componimenti of religious argument that, conserved in the monasteri, constitute the greater part of the reached Anglo-Saxon literature until we. The most ancient poetico fragment till now conserved consists of nine backs on the Creation, composed in the WAYS century from Caedmon, a poor mandriano to the service of the abbey of Whitby. According to Beda the Venerable person , great historian and theologian whom the Hymn in Latin paraphrased, the illetterato Caedmon began to write backs miraculously, as a result of one vision; this prodigioso event induced it is made monaco and to dedicate itself to the composition of works inspired to the first books of the Bible.
Posterior it is the work of an other Anglo-Saxon poet of Christian inspiration, Cynewulf, that it reveals one more greater technical-formal ability and one deepened acquaintance of the Latin witnesses. To its school the dream of the cross, poema devozionale is attributed that represents the apex of the religious poetry. To this production they go added to short compositions like The Wanderer (the errante) and The Seafarer (the navigator) that, for the beauty of the language and the style, they are considers you capolavori of ancient the lyric one English. Less obvious they are the references to the Christian doctrine here, replaced from one reflection elegiaca on the mystery and the violence of the nature, on the cruelty and the fascination of the sea, on the topics of the exile and the solitudine.
Prosa
The literature in prosa laughed them to the period that followed the conversion to the Christianity of the Anglo-Saxons and therefore is constituted from a great number of religious works. Its development had place in the within of the put into effect cultural renewal from the greater Anglo-Saxon monarch, Alfredo (871-899). To he Christian tradition translations of great works of and adaptation of the De must to numerous consolatione philosophiae (Of the consolation of the philosophy) of Boezio . The king made translate in Anglo-Saxon also the monumental ecclesiastical Historia gentis anglorum (731, ecclesiastical History of the angli) of Beda, work that testifies the intense intellectual life bloomed in the WAYS century in the greater monasteri of northern England, whose libraries were between richest of Europe.
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