9 Form - English Centre Lesson 1 - United Kingdom Lesson 2 - Historical Places of GB ! Prepare some interesting information about Scotland Lesson 3 - LONDON ! Be ready to speak about London: task 4 and task 9. Lesson 5 - Literature (Famous Writers and Poets in GB) English literature is traditionally divided into the Old English, Middle English, Renaissance and Elizabethan, Jacobean, Restoration, 18 th century, Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods. Old English is the first recorded English literature. Caedmon /770?/, Anglo-Saxon poet and monk composed “Hymn” in the 8 th century. Manuscripts from AD 1000 contain the best known OE work, Beowulf, a heroic poem written in the 700s. Middle English begins with the Norman conquest of 1066. This brought both the French language and a French literary tradition. The Arthurian cycle became the central myth for English literature. Arthur was a Romano-British leader in the wars against the Saxons. A ...