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You will understand how Beowulf shaped English literature, what the poem reveals about Anglo-Saxon culture, and how to read Old English heroic values critically today.
Understand how Geoffrey Chaucer captured the language, social tensions and individual personalities of fourteenth-century England through his groundbreaking poetry.
You will understand how changes in the English language itself created new possibilities for writers, and how literary texts both reflect and drove the evolution of English from Anglo-Saxon to modern forms.