Inglese

Dorian, with his new love story, and remembering what he did in the past, he realizes that he wants to change his life, running away with Emily. But in the while Henry studies old photographs, and he catches the secret of Dorian. So Henry goes to Dorian’s house where he find the portrait. Then arrives Dorian and next Emily. In the subsequent confrontati

Parts: 1) 1-12: description of the setting (place, hour of the day = dusk) with its typical sounds; landscape fades; slowly because it’s a peaceful life. The poet loves the night. 2) 13-28: consideration of the life of the poor, after a “link” between the two parts. About fore-fathers: what they used to do (morning: get up early, go hunting; then: firep

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He covered different styles. He wrote two long narrative poems: Child Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan, his masterpiece.

POETRY:
Byron is romantic in:
• His life: he came from an aristocratic family
• His worship of liberty and his rebellion against any form o oppression
• His exageration of passions and emotions
• His melan

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The preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800), is considered the Manifesto of English Romanticism. In it Wordsworth expressed a new concept of poetry, which emphasized the authenticity of rustic life, the use of simple language and the importance of emotions and imagination.
According to the content, the text can be divided into f

When nearly twenty, Tom falls in love with his neighbour’ s daughter, the lovely Sophia Western, and she with him, but their relationship is opposed by her father who rejects the idea of marrying his daughter to a foundling. Blifil, who wants to marry Sophia, spreads lies about Tom who is then compelled to leave Mr Allworthy’ s house.
The second pa

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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