English Literature Pages for Students

Pre-Raphaelite school of painting: Dante Gabriel Rosetti's "La Ghirlandata" (1873) Guildhall Art Gallery, London   Announcements! English 127: Reading list for class presentation!

Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

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Student Pages:

excerpts Cloud of Unknowing
Epiphanies and Mystical Moments
Martin Luther: 95 Theses
Juliana of Norwich
Ancient Timelines: chronology
Renaissance Sonnet samples from Spenser, Sydney, Mary Wroth
Sonnet Central.org an elaborate celebration of the sonnets
Astrophel and Stella by Philip Sidney

I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Greek, Roman, Christian traditions and timelines converge in I Claudius as historical novel
Robert Graves archives
Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves extracts
Roman Empire: the first century PBS  TV series site
Claudius' invasion of Britain
Golden Age from Ovid and the ideology of the Golden Age motif

Beowulf text
Listen to Beowulf in Old English
Modern English to Old English vocabulary
Beowulf Illustrated, starring Bill Clinton as Beowulf

Deor text in the original  comments on Weland and translation
Caedmon's Hymn translations by our students
possibly written by Caedmon, "Dream of the Rood" verse translation
is the oldest original poem that has survived
The Seafarer parallel translations
The Wanderer manuscript and translations parallel translation
The Battle of Maldon, 991 AD bibliography statue of Earl Brithnoth and
other materials on this crucial battle between Anglo-Saxon and Vikings
Earl Brithnoth decides to fight
Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
On John Webster and contemporaries:
Artemisia: movie
Dangerous Beauty a film adaptation of the Venitian poet and courtesan Veronica Franco
Women Writers of the Renaissance
 

AncrenRiwle and Moral Ode Norton Topics online on Riwle Women Writers of the Middle Ages On Matilda Seamus Heaney on Beowulf and his verse translation Exile of the sons of Uisliu Amazon.com reviews Book of MargerieKempe: Revelations of Divine Love (Penguin Classics) by Julian of Norwch Julian Links a one-stop link center for Julian and her times  Electronic Versions of Classics of the Christian Tradition  PROSE AND VERSE CRITICISM OF POETRY collection at the University of Toronto

The Romance of the Rose De Lorris Guillaume, Jean De Meun
The Selected Writings of Christine De Pizan by Kevin Brownlee
Timor Mortis Conturbat Me  by Williamn Dunbar
External sources:
University of Notre Dame study guide to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Visit British museum and search for relevant images

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