ENGL 3560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Christian Mythology, Parsing, Exeter Book
15 Sep 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
First quiz is manly dates - and then parsing (analyze, take apart, close read it) one quotation from one of the three poems we have read in class [open book test] Romanticists rejuvenated the interest in old english and middle english. Dante gabriel rossetti / christina rossetti (wrote goblin market) [1790-1830(?)] The dark ages therefore is an inaccurate term - these changing times were simply a continuance of progression. Although, we can"t "see what was going on" from this period because there isn"t enough work/historic knowledge when studying the period to make assumptions of what the period was like. Svmer is icumen in (1225, from ms harley 978) & perspice christicola (probably older than. Svmer ): (first poem about spring, second poem about easter) In the latter, the latin version, god is referred to as a farmer making him ubiquitous to the times - everyone was a farmer, this was their way of life so god was no different.
