NSOU BDP 1st Year EEG 1 (Old English or Anglo- Saxon  Period  in Bengali with Important Notes)
Channel: English Coaching
Date: 2020-05-17

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

1. Bring out the features of epic poetry in Beowulf. 

2. Comment critically on the features of old English elegies/ lyrics.

3. Give an account of Anglo-Saxon Christian poetry. / Write a short essay on Old English religious poetry.

4. Give an account of old English Heroic poetry.

5. Trace the development of Anglo-Saxon prose.

6. Comment on the note of melancholy in Anglo-Saxon elegiac poetry with reference to any one poem that you have read.

HISTORY OF ENGLISH PHILOLOGY

1. Assess the Latin influence on the English language.

2. Assess the nature and extent of the Scandinavian influence on the English Language.