The First Generation of Romantic Poets: William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)
Wordsworth during the French Revolution was attracted by the new democratic ideas so he became a fervent supporter of it. In 1795 he met Samuel Coleridge, with whom he was to develop a long and very productive friendship. They shared the same lov
The manifesto of the movement, expressing other principles, were the preface of Wilde’s “The picture of Dorian Gray” (1891):
• The artist is a creator of beautiful things
• To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim
• The critic is he who can translate into another matter or a new material his impression of beautiful things
• Ther
5.2. Eliot's poetry
The themes of Eliot’s works are:
- modern man alienation from society;
- contraposition between time and eternity;
- the question of personal identity;
- relationship past-present and the exaltation of the past (tradition);
- the fear of living;
- the spiritual dryness, sterility and emptiness of
Actually, not even the student completely understood the mystery of love: he feels it, but he doesn't listen to it:”The Student looked up from the grass, and listened, but he could not understand what the Nightingale was saying to him, for he only knew the things that are written on books” and love isn't explained in a book.
To the writer, love is s
Daisy goes on to ask Caroline to read from an old diary. In this diary it has been recorded the life of a man called Benjamin, a curious person who was born with the appearance of an old man and ages backward like the mentioned clock. But Benjamin's and Daisy's life will interlace each other, giving birth to a moving love story.
The term Victorian comes from Queen Victoria, who ascended the throne in 1837, at the age of eighteen. So, we can identify the queen with the period in which she ruled. The nation itself not only identified with her, but it also elevated her into a monumental symbol of its own perceived greatness, exalted by her very name, Victoria, instantly recogn
In history because Ireland was colonised by England in the XIII century. In religion because British colonisation brought a new religion in Ireland. Irish people had Celtic origins. Celtics were known as a Catholic people, whereas English people were Protestants.
English people introduced FEUDALISM in Ireland and obliged Iris