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In 1795, after receiving a legacy, Wordsworth lived with his sister Dorothy first in Dorset and then at Alfoxden, Dorset, close to Coleridge.
In these years he wrote many of his greatest poems and also travelled with Coleridge and Dorothy, in the winter of 1798-79, to Germany. Two years later the friendship with Taylor Coleridge proved crucial to th

Vero è che una massa di documenti esterni anagrafici, legali, sono stati scoperti, sull'uomo, sulla famiglia e sui rapporti che egli ebbe a Londra e a Stratford .
Il suo ultimo biografo dice che si sa più di lui che di altri poeti dell'epoca tuttavia la massa di notizie forma una cornice all'interno della quale Shakespeare resta inafferrabile.
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William Blake was an independent artist, poet and engraver. Blake was often defined a madman by his contemporaries. He came after a period in which reason, balance, order, form and judgement were given the greatest importance. He was enthusiastic about the French Revolution and its principles. He criticized the England of his time where people were impr

Cook was determined to keep his crew healthy. He insisted his men eat onions and pickled cabbage every day, and made sure that the ship kept fresh fruit and vegetables on board. He ordered his men to bathe every day, to clean their clothing, and to air out their bedding. He did not know the scientific reasons behind these measures, but he knew they work

The eve of st agnes;characterised by romantic features
The great, ode on a gracian urn, where the poet explores the relations between pleasure and pains and reality and imagination;
The ballad La belle dame sans merci, which displays once more a taste for medieval themes and form;
In 1820 the symptoms of consumption became evident and in sep

So the room has a simbolical values:in fact,a room of one’s oswn means a place for one’s solitude and,above all,a place where one i san individual ,before being part of community,or rather a person at the service of community,or rather a person at the service of a community.Woolf says that a room of one’s own and five hundred pounds a year are the funda

The most important writers of this period are Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, first with a social comedies, second for the reality of work and the criticism of Victorian values.
George Bernard Shaw was influenced by Ibsen in which he saw a new face of theatre, an instrument for social and political change. Another characteristic of Sh

Philanthropy was a wide phenomenon: the rich middle class expolited the poor ruthlesssly and at the same time managed to help “stay children, fallen woman and drunk men”.
The husband represented the autority and the key role of woman regarded the education of children and the hosework.
Sexuality was generally repressed in its public and private

~~~~The Chartist Movement started in 1837 and ended in 1848. It aim was to obtain full democratic participation of the working classes in politics. This group was composed by radicals and workers, who in 1839 presented to Parliament a document called "People's Charter".
But the Charter failed and his objectives were taken again by the Reform Bill an