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en-wikipedia-org-7138		View source for English literature - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	19074	2127	64	[[Orature|Oral tradition]] was very strong in early [[Anglo-Saxon England|English culture]] and most literary works were written to be performed.<ref>{{Citation | first = Francis P jr | last = Magoun | title = The Oral-Formulaic Character of Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry | journal = Speculum | volume = 28 | issue = 3 | pages = 446–67 | doi=10.2307/2847021| jstor = 2847021 | year = 1953 }}.</ref><ref>{{Citation | last = Fry | first = Donald K jr | year = 1968 | title = The Beowulf Poet: A Collection of Critical Essays | place = Englewood Cliffs | publisher = Prentice-Hall | pages = 83–113}}.</ref> [[Epic poetry|Epic poems]] were very popular, and some, including ''[[Beowulf]]'', have survived to the present day. 1126) | title = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2004 | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8383 | access-date = 8 February 2011}}.</ref> At the end of the 12th century, [[Layamon]] in ''[[Layamon's Brut|Brut]]'' adapted the [[Norman-French]] of [[Wace]] to produce the first English-language work to present the legends of [[King Arthur]] and the [[Knights of the Round Table]].{{Sfn | Drabble | 1996 | p = 44}} It was also the first historiography written in English since the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]].	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7138.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7138.txt