In 1638 Milton went to Italy where he met Galilei and other learned people, but had to come back to England when the civil war broke out. He was a supporter of Oliver Cromwell.
In 1644 Milton wrote Aeropagitica in which advocated liberty of speech and liberty of the press.
In 1649 he wrote Tenure of Kings and Magistrates in which he justified t
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R. BROOKE
- Born into a well-to-do academic family
- Brooke’s poetry would have changed in tone and imaginary
- Brooke is remembered as a war poets, who inspired patriotism in the early months of the great war
- He assumed a symbolic role that turned into the myth of a young and beautiful fallen. - He didn’t get in touch wi
parole. Esso veniva caldamente proposto per i vantaggi che procurava
alla salute e alla velocità della comunicazione. Infatti ogni parola
che pronunciamo provoca una grossa azione corrosiva nei polmoni,
contribuendo ad abbreviarci la vita. Si proponeva dunque questo
espediente per cui,
Chartism
Their discontent was voiced by the Chartist,a group of radicals and workers who presented to Parliament a document called the People’s Charter advocating radical reform of Parliament in six points.But the Charter was rejected and disappeared without achieving its objectives.
Worker’s rights
Factory workers had to wait fot the Reform
Quando raggiunsi il mio castello, giacché da allora in poi credo di averlo sempre chiamato in questo modo, mi rifugiai all'interno come se fossi stato inseguito da qualcuno. Non riesco nemmeno a ricordare se vi entrai usando la scala, come intendevo fare, o se invece passai attraverso l'apertura che avevo scavato nella roccia, e che ho desig
CHRISTMAS CAROL
True Humanity
Scholar Michael Patrick Hearn, in The Annotated Christmas Carol (1976; New York: Norton, 2004), notes that Dickens was a Unitarian. Unitarian Christianity, in Dickens’ day, focused more on morality and ethics than on traditional theology. Dickens wrote in one of his letters, “I have always striven in my writings to
The poet analyses also the process which must follow for makes a poetic opera.
First of all the poet lives a sensory experience, then he makes emotion. In a second time, in tranquillity, with the memory, kindred the same emotion and at last he writes a poem. In this passage we can be read the theme which caracterize the Romantic poetry: an exaltatio
This is a Petrarchian sonnet composed by 14 lines and divided in 2 quartins and 2 terzet. The rhyme scheme is ABBA ABBA CDC DCD.
The poet uses metaphor, repetition, personification and simily. This sonnet can be divided into three phrases:
1) introduction
2) description of London
3) poet’s emotional response...
SECOND STANZA
The second stanza starts with a simily: the daffodils are compared to the “stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way” ( Line 7). In these lines the poet shows the daffodils as a part of a universal order. The joy exhibited by both the “dancing” flowers and the stars that “twinkle” ( Line 8) is attributed to them by the poet th
Shelley è contro il re e i principi e attacca la cultura del tempo.
Il re ( Giorgio III) muore nel 1819 e viene sostituito dai figli.
È contro la politica agricola perché la “CORN LAW” imponeva il pagamento dei dazi per il grano proveniente dall’America; gli inglesi morivano di fame ed erano costretti a comprare il grano inglese che comunque ave