Letteratura Inglese

• A growing interest in humble and everyday life.
• Great attention to the country.
• The rediscovery of the art and popular traditions of the Middle Ages (Gothic vogue: horrific, irrational, supernatural).
• A child was very pure, because he wasn’t still civilisation and he was closer to God.
• The Imagination was a way to express emot

THE PLOT:
Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, manages to create a human being, by joining parts selected from corpses. The result of the experiment is revolting and horrible; the Monster becomes a murder and, in the end, he destroys his creator. The story is not told chronologically and it is introduced to us by some letters that Walton, a young explor

During the reign of queen Victoria between 1837 1901 there was the first reform act. The queen was the example of way of life. It was a period of material progress and social reforms. Chartism was a working-class movement and it want social reforms and the extension of the right to vote. In 1851 the Great Exhibition made manifest Britain’s leading polit

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

Paradise Lost
Is a religious epic poem. The epic is a very ancient form of poetry, originating in an age before writing, like Odyssey, Iliad and Bewulf. Paradise lost takes place in the universe: in Heaven, Hell and Eden, the caracthers are God, Satan, Christ, Man and the angels. Although Milton was familiar with the Copernican cosmology he bas

• Language: simple and lyrical in the songs and more difficult in the prophetic books.
• Works: “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, “Milton”, “French Revolution, a Prophecy”.

William Wordsworth
• Subject of poetry: Incidents and situation from common life.
• Language: a selection of language really used by men.
• Poetry: it

About poetic technique, the romantic poets used a new and individual style a different poetic diction that means more vivid and familiar words and not the artificial circumlocutions of the early 18th century diction, for example: symbols and images lost their decorative functions to assume a vital role.
About verse forms, there was a retur

Il puritanesimo scatenerà la guerra civile contro l'anglicanesimo. All'inizio trionfa il puritanesimo ma alla fine i puritani sono costretti a migrare in un nuovo paese.
Giacomo I creò la "Union Jack". "union Jack" era l'unione di Irlanda, Scozia e Inghilterra. Però Questa era molto instabile perchè c'era differenze religiose e un forte ass

LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
Medieval French author ALAIN CHARTIER, who wrote this very famous ballad that inspired the English romantic poet Lord Byron

FRENCH FABLIAUX
In the “Le dix de perdrix” the women is a liar

WIFE OF BATH
Extroverted, not interested in sexual satisfaction but in money, she is bossy and dominant: she’s go

Perverso, brutale, cupo e immorale, questi furono alcuni degli aggettivi con cui venne definitivo il libro alla sua prima apparizione sul mercato editoriale, e proprio per questo dobbiamo tributare grandi onori all'autrice per averle sapute riprodurre e rappresentare nonostante fosse fin da fanciulla vissuta praticamente segregata nella canonica del pad