Characteristics Of The Beowulf Poem
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There are many that make it a
significant part of the history of literature. It is a perfect
representation of how the people in eighth century England communicated,
what their feelings were, and their culture. "It gives us vital
information about Old English social life and about Old English p ....
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.... between 700 and 750. "No one
knows who composed Beowulf , or why. A single manuscript (Cotton Vitellius
A XV) managed to survive Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, and
the destruction of their great libraries; since his name is written on one
of the folios, Lawrence Nowell, the sixteenth-century scholar, may have
been responsible for Beowulf's preservation."(Raffel ix) An interesting
fact that is unique about the poem is that "it is the sole survivor of what
may have been a ....
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