very warm welcome you all on this channel and friends in today's video we are going to discuss the exams related to English literature UPPGT PGT 2021 which is a syllabus and in this series this is our second video yesterday we discussed all the ages of English literature in a brief way overview we discussed the age of all the ages of English literature in that video you will find the link in the description box Please check there and watch that video. And today's video is going to be about Old English Period and Anglo-Saxon Age. The starting of this period from 5th century to 11th century is known as Old English Period in English Literature.
Also, it is known as Anglo-Saxon Period. Why it was named as Aglosanxiate? We are going to discuss all these things in this video.
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Why this age is called Anglo section in this period or in the history of English literature. Today we will discuss this first. So let's start.
Here we have the Anglo. Saxon period and its history here we will discuss history of the period and This age started in the 5th century when Angles and Saxons came to England from Germany Yes, these were German tribes. The Anglo and Saxons were German tribes and They came to England after defeating English tribes and they started their reign in England Or they started ruling over England like tribes because there was a dominance of Anglo and Saxon and it ended in 1066 with Norman conquest.
Norman conquest was very important incident in English literature or England. It happened in 11th century when Norman conquest happened and the Germanic tribes Anglo and Saxon were defeated and Anglo and Saxon were the Germanic tribes which in 5th century means after defeating English tribes. This is a history.
This period was read in the name of this. We know it as Anglo-Saxon Age. Which we also call Old English Period. And after this medieval period started.
Which we call Middle English Ages or Middle English Period. After the Norman Conquest, that era started in English literature. And next we have the In the 7th century, monasteries were established. Yes, monasteries were established in the 7th century where written literature began. Yes, this was the time when literature was written in the written way.
Means, it started in the written way by the writers in the 17th century. And the place were monasteries. Because before this, whatever literature existed, the inclined beam.
They were all in oral way. Oral means they were written in oral way. Meaning they were not written anywhere in written.
Orally poets or unknown writers before this 7th century. They all the literature related to English or any other language. They all were in oral forms or sub-ruler forms were available.
Next we have the Alfred the Great who reigned over England from. 871 to 1901 encouraged education and supervised the compilation of the Anglo-Saxon chronicles. Yes, the great Alfred who was the king who ruled over England in during the time of this 8th to 8th 9th century to 10th century and its time duration was from 871 to 1901. He was the king of England. supervised and encouraged education. Yes, people go for education or mostly the education that was related to religion.
Religion was based on Christianity. And the credit goes to the Alfred the Great who encouraged people to go for the education and he also supervised the compilation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, whatever were the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles related to historical events, whatever were the Anglo-Saxon, they started a compilation and supervised it, that whatever the incident had happened during the history of the country, the ruling period of that age, the ruling king, due to this, Alfred the Great, whatever were the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, whatever were the historical events, whatever historical events took place at that time, a compilation of all those things was made. supervised kia to know people about the history of the Anglo-Saxon age and that for the Germanic tribes.
Next, hum discuss karte hain kuch important and major work related to this. Next, here we are going to discuss important literary works of this age of Old English period or Anglo-Saxon period and here we have the Beowulf. The earliest epic of English literature was written in this period.
Yes, this was the time when we all, the great epic poem written in this era, in this year, that was Old English period. And the time which was of this, we don't know in which year exactly it was written. It was written between 5th century to 11th century.
Yes, it was written in this time duration, in Anglo-Saxon time. But the writer of this. epic poem great epic poem of the old english time was unknown no one knows about its writer even its writer is called Beolf poet which is also written by him now if we talk about poet then there is this discussion or this word we use that was the Beolf poet and Beolf was the great warrior whose description is found in epic poem and it was one of the great and earliest epic poem of the English literature that was existed that was written during the time of Old English period.
Next we have the Wanderer's Message, the Wife's Lament. These all are among remarkable poems of the age. Bjorf was one of them.
Wanderers, the Seafarers, the Husband's Message, the Wife's Lament. These are also important and remarkable poems of this era of Old English age. Next we have the literary features of the age. Yes, here we will talk about literary features, we will talk about literary characteristics, what was the type of literature, what was the nature of literature during this time.
And most of the writers of this age are unknown. Yes, means if you talk about Beowulf's epic poem, that was unknown poet who had written this great epic poem Beowulf. And except Cadmon, Cadmon was another, literary figure of this time who is held to be the first known poet of English and beat the first historian beat was the poet beaut was the man who was the first historian of any English era and Cadman was regarded as the first English poet and who belongs to these that was Anglo Sanction is next we have Christianity dominates the literary spirit of the time. Yes What was the literary spirit? Means what was the subject matter about which the literature was written?
That was Christianity. Religion. Christianity or religion. Subject matter to talk with you for works. Likha get a or heroic deeds heroic deeds Keep up character here, but other subject matter.
Kia, what could they heroic deeds love of sea adventure? intense love of glory and the main features of the literature of this period yes heroic deeds Keep up character here, but other deeds may up could be all to create epic poem a time cut to the subject matter Do I tell you that is also heroic poet epic poem just me The main character of Beowulf is talked about his heroic spirit, how great warrior he was and how he killed so many monsters and became king. All these stories are based on this. His warrior deeds are emphasized here.
And also sea adventures and intense love of glory. Love of glory means yes love of glory is also the subject matter of the Beowulf that was the epic poem. So here if we talk about the characteristics of the literary features of this age, you can say that the literature of this era belongs to the religion, love of glory, adventures and also heroic deeds.
And you have the fine example of this, that was the great epic poem Beowulf. If we talk about this age overall, then Beowulf is the main important literary work that was written during this time. But the time duration, if we talk about it, written from 6th century to 9th century and we don't know the exact year of writing but this is one of the important literary work of this time and friends, today we have discussed old English period next video will be related to middle English we will cover one by one the syllabus of this entire English literature you will also get to know important writers and their important works here on this channel, on videos available and please check out description box you will get very important links available and along with that if you have any queries you can WhatsApp me 7 8 3 8 3 4 3 8 3 6 this is my WhatsApp number you can message me on WhatsApp or you can ask questions in the comment section also related to any of your doubts and stay tuned with this channel for more videos and more informative videos especially related to the UPTGT PGT exams and also for another exams of English Literature.