The approach to the course depends on the study of literature in its historical context defined by genre and period.
             How can we deal with literature from the historical approach? Those who take this view are aware that literature is as old as language, but it is also new.
             About this point we have tow main answers:
             1. Yes, we can and we should. In fact there is a general tendency to see literature in its circumstances around it.
             2. It is not so easy.
            
             Literature is the product for special nation. But these concepts have changed by the change of the age, this age is global where there are no national borders. The last modern theory of literature is that which believes of the death of author. The author's name should be dead. All what we have to deal with is to consult with language.
            
             The 14th Century marks the beginning of literature. Jeffery Chaucer is considered to be the father and the first important writer of English Literature. But as a matter of history he is not. That period was not the first. English literature has started at the 6th Century. There was a poet called Caedman and also a poem named Beowulf with unknown poet. That remarks the start of English literature.
            
             What have happened in the 6th century?
             There are two important events that start at the 6th and gave rise to the poetic writing:
             1. The emigration of tribes from Europe to England.
             2. There is conversion into Christianity.
            
             England was ruled by Romans, but it was inhabited by Britain. This was the first English race. They lived very happily and had their own civilization. The Britain they have spoken a special language which totally differs from today and they had their own literature.
             With the falling of Roman Empire the situation had changed. The tribes of Caths and Vonals had came from the eastern of Europe into England and Angles-Saxons- jutes from the west of Europe. This was the first event. During this race they gave the...