ENGLISH LITERATURE(Middle Ages)
The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language , including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S. Naipaul is American, Vladimir Nabokov was Russian. In other words, English literature is as diverse as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the world. are academia, the term often labels departments and programmed practicing English studies in secondary and tertiary educational systems. This article primarily deals with literature from Britain written in English. For literature from specific English-speaking regions, see the see also section at the bottom of the page. The first works in English, written in the Cecilia-LaFrance dialect now called Old English, appeared in the early Middle Ages (the oldest surviving text is CƦdmon's Hymn). The