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English ______ as a literary genre gained popularity in the eighteenth century, its beginning can be traced back to 612 BC when world‘s oldest literature Epic of Gilgamesh was written. Homer, who lived in 700 or 800 BC, was the first notable poet or a literary pioneer who wrote the famous Greek epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey.
novel
He established the tradition of epic which had particular structure and subject matter. In 900 BC Roman ______ Virgil produced epic poems Beowulf and Aeneid with the latter becoming a model for John Milton (1608-74) to write his Paradise Lost.
poet
The epics were narrative ______ telling stories of human encounters with monsters and accounts of accomplishments of heroic deeds in battles. After the epics came a new form of literature called the romances originating in France in the 12th century.
verses
It was also popularly known as chivalric romance or medieval romance (having flourished in the medieval times or medieval age between1000 AD to 1450 AD).
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The scholars ______ into two kinds of romances- the Matter of France and the Matter of Britain.
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