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Brief History of English and American Literature

Brief History of English and American Literature

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Fiction AnthologiesGeneral EducationPhotography History & Criticism

ISBN10: 1544605684
ISBN13: 9781544605685
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 16 2017
Pages: 460
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The Norman conquest of England, in the 11th century, made a break in the natural growth of the English language and literature. The old English or Anglo-Saxon had been a purely Germanic speech, with a complicated grammar and a full set of inflections. For three hundred years following the battle of Hastings this native tongue was driven from the king's court and the courts of law, from parliament, school, and university. During all this time there were two languages spoken in England. Norman French was the birth-tongue of the upper classes and English of the lower.

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