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                                           OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE Old English Literature or Anglo-Saxon literature, encomposses literature written in Old English, in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Angles, Jutes and Saxons were initially different tribes from continental Europe. The Angles came from an area in modern-day Germany called Angeln on the Jutland Peninsula. The Jutes, on the other hand, came from the northern part of the Jutland Peninsula and mainly settled in Kent. Finally the Saxons appear to have come from Holstein, just south of the Jutland Peninsula. They settled in the south of England, creating the kingdoms Wessex, Sussex, Essex and Middlesex. So to sum up, the Angles, Jutes and Saxons all came from different areas of the continent and settled in different parts of modern-day England. Celts are a peace-loving and agricultural people. They are an Indo-European people in Iron Age an

LITERATURE is a written works such as poems, novels etc. That has a lasting importance in our world. It has an intelectual value and its also a work-of-art. Its a universal interest and it is also a written account.  Literature has three (3) parts. The first one is the POETRY, second is the PROSE and of course the third one is the DRAMA. Let us first begin in the POETRY. POETRY has also three (3) parts. The LYRIC, NARRATIVE and the DRAMATIC. The types of LYRIC are the following: BALLAD - a kind of poem or song that tells a story. The example of this is "Lord Randal My Son". SONG - a short piece of music with words that is sung. SONNET - a poem that made up of 14 lines that rhyme in a fixed pattern. The two (2) types of SONNET are THE SHAKESPEAREAN and the PETRARCHAN SONNET. Next is the PASTORAL. ODE - a poem which is a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect to someone or something. And the last one is ELEGY - a song or a poem that expresses a