Literature of Great Britain

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  1. 4. the longest epic poem in Old English, about the exploits of a hero and his battles with a monster named Grendel
  2. 5. the greatest lyric period in the history of English literature
  3. 7. a song or poem that tells a story and passed from one generation to the next
  4. 8. a fourteen-line poem
  5. 10. collection of tales by Boccaccio, a masterpiece of classical Italian prose; ten young people flee plague-stricken Florence
  6. 12. a traveler who is on a journey to a holy place
  7. 13. He was against the Elizabethan romantic plays which were unreal and concealed the truth of life
  8. 14. a person who writes plays
Down
  1. 1. an English playwright and the world's greatest dramatist
  2. 2. a period in Europe from the 14th to the 17th century, that promoted the rediscovery of classical literature
  3. 3. the author of Gulliver's Travels
  4. 5. a genre of a narrative defined by heroic or legendary adventures
  5. 6. a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More
  6. 9. a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries
  7. 11. a musician or singer in the Middle Ages