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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