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THE LITERARY GROUND: literature in the Romantic Age
ROMANTIC POETRY
During the Romantic period, poetry became one of the most vital forms of literary expression. The poetry of Romanticism signalled a profound change in sensibility which was occurring in Britain and in Europe at the time. Intellectually, the Romantic movement signalled a violent

➢ Queen Victoria
When King William IV died, he was succeeded by his niece Victoria, who was only 18. She became soon very popular because of her strong sense of duty and her simplicity.
The constitution under Queen Victoria did not differ from the one we know today.
Her inexperience facilitated the British two-party system. The reign was pol

Until they were old enough to go away to a boarding school or college, or have a tutor, upper and middle class children were taught in their homes by governesses. Although a governess had to have the education and manners of a "lady," she was treated as a servant. However, the other servants did not accept her either because she shared a level of intima

Nacque a Lowell il 12 marzo del 1922 ed ebbe una rigida istruzione cattolica i cui effetti si manifestarono nelle profonde aspirazioni religiose, nonostante una vita dissipata e vagabonda. Cominciò a frequentare l'università fino all'imbarco in marina come cuoco nel conflitto mondiale. Fu congedato perché nevrotico e in patria riprese a studiare fino a

The site of the house — had it ever existed — would have been at the north end of Baker Street on the west side, near Regent's Park and Baker Street tube station. This justifies the claim of the Sherlock Holmes Museum that they occupy the real location of 221b Baker Street.
We met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No. 221B

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Together, all books, are a connected body of tales, fictional histories, invented languages and literary essays about an imagined world called Arda, and Middle-earth (derived from Old English word “middangeard”, that is the land inhabitable by human), in particular, loosely identified as an “alternative” remote past of our own world.
Tolkien applied

It was born in England → Britain needed natural sources (Britain lost its colonies in America after the war)
• population growth (increasing numbers of consumers and workers)
• the rise of the factory town (workers’ houses near the factories) → urbanisation (Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester)
• living and working conditions (very poor, dange