How can we deal with literature from the historical approach? Those who take this view are aware that literature is as old as language, but it is also new.

About this point we have tow main answers:

1. Yes, we can and we should. In fact there is a general tendency to see literature in its circumstances around it.

Literature is the product for special nation. But these concepts have changed by the change of the age, this age is global where there are no national borders. The last modern theory of literature is that which believes of the death of author. The author's name should be dead. All what we have to deal with is to consult with language.

The 14th Century marks the beginning of literature. Jeffery Chaucer is considered to be the father and the first important writer of English Literature. But as a matter of history he is not. That period was not the first. English literature has started at the 6th Century. There was a poet called Caedma

n and also a poem named Beowulf with unknown poet. That remarks the start of English literature.

This age was written on manuscripts by some monks in English who were living in monasteries between 7th and 9th Century. But these manuscripts didn't see life until the 16th Cent. They were only four manuscripts survived until now. Their names are:

1. The emigration of tribes from Europe to England.

England was ruled by Romans, but it was inhabited by Britain. This was the first English race. They lived very happily and had their own civilization. The Britain they have spoken a special language which totally differs from today and they had their own literature.

Poetry was oral religious but it was not a primitive poetry. It is true that in form and shape is similar to primitive but the content was not primitive, not collocated, not civil speaking about barbarian men and gods.

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