British Literature Midterm
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- Deor
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author is unknown
c. 900-950
found in the Exeter Book - Riddles from the Exeter Book
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author: Aldhelm of Malmesburv
7th century - The Wanderer
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author is unknown
10th century
found in the Exeter Book - The Wife's Lament
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author unknown
10th century
found in the Exeter Book - Beowulf
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author: Christian poet; name unknown
1000 AD - Religious Literature
- various authors: Bede, King Alfred the Great, and some saints
- The Dream of the Rood
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title: "The Dream of the Cross"
author is unknown
late 10th century - Caedmon's Hymn
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author: The Venerable Bede
731
found in: "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People" - The Canterbury Tales
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author: Geoffrey Chaucer
1386
printer: 1476 - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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author is unknown
1375-1400 - York Play of the Crucifixion
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author: possibly the York Realist
1425 - The Second Shepherds' Play
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author: Wakefield Master
mid-15th century - Julian of Norwich
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author: Julian
1416
"Book of Showings" - Morte D'Arthur
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author: Sir Thomas Malory
begun in 1450's
finished in 1470 - Middle English Lyrics
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works: The Cuckoo Song, Alison, My Lief is Faren in Londe, Western Wind, I Am of Ireland
possible authors: John Lyndgate and Hoccleve - What is he, this lordling, that cometh from the fight
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author: Franciscan William Herebert
approx. 1300
part of Incarnation and Cricifixion Lyrics - Incarnation and Crucifixion Lyrics
- works: Ye that Pasen by the Weye, Sunset on Calvary, I Sing of a Maiden, Adam Lay Bound, and The Corpus Christi Carol
- Popular Ballads
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author is unknown; collection by Child
17th century
works: Lord Randall, Bonny Barbara Allen, The Three Ravens, Sir Patrick Spens - Middle English Religious Verse
- works: Wait a Litte (13th), When I See on the Cross (13th), A Winter Song (1300), I Have Labored Sore (15th), Wit Wonders (15th)
- Vox Ultima Crucis
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author: John Lydgate
1400-1450
part of the Middle English Religious verse