Dian Septianty

201712500180
X7b Literature Assignment
08128781600 (Old & Middle English)

In connection with both great histories given, it

makes me understand more about history of English
literature so that I can able to appreciate more for all
English literature works, especially poem. The first
period called as The term Anglo-Saxon taught me a
lot about how English language developed from the
earliest written records to the present day.
Furthermore, The Middle English period sees a huge
transition in the language, culture, and lifestylen of
England and results in what we can organize today as
a form of “modern” English. From the materials that
you gave in a couple of weeks ago, I try to make
highlight of importance points from them by creating
table of differences among them. Several of
differences will shown in table below:

The Differences
Description Old English Middle English
Definition The earliest The transition period
form of English from old to modern
language and English.
it was spoken
and written by
Anglo-Saxon
Period 450 - 1066 1066 - 1485
The  The  The Norman
importance Romance conquest
events Empire
conquest
The  King  William ( Duke of
important Aethelbert Normandy)
figures I  Layamon
 The  Geoffrey Chaucer
missionarie  John Gower
s  John Skelton
 Aelfric
  Bede
Kinds of the  The poem  Poem
literature Beowulf  Drama
that they  Bible  Anonymous text
used transaltion
Some of  Hymn  The Owl and the
works ( song Nightingale
praise) (Layamon,13th
 The Dream century)
of the Rood  The Canterbury
( Cynewulf’ Tales(Chaucer,
s poetry) 1387-1400)
 The  Pearl and Sir
Wanderer Gawaian and The
and The Green night(William
Seafafer Langland’s works)
 Beowulf ( a  Mendelville’s
story about Travel(Wyclif,1324-
a brave 1384)
young man  Confessio
from Amantis(John
Southern Gower’s work)
 Sweden)  Drama of the
mysterious and
miraculous of the
Bible and the saints’
lives(played by
businessmen in the
city)
Themes  Germanic  Heroes
that the myth  Myths,imagination
authors or  History  Faith and religion
figures used  Religion  Values as applied to
in their ( The everyday life
works Christian)
 Heroic
Vocabulary  Latin and  French
that they Germanic
used language

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but

should finish in the reader’s.”
-Stephen King-