Letteratura Inglese

But this happy period was short.
In fact Virginia ‘s mother died and her father sold it.
When Virginia was thirteen , she suffered from depression for her mother.
In these years she read for long hours in her father’s library and began writing articles and essays.
In 1904her father died and she attemped the suicide by taking drugs.

The old English ballads include the best exciting poetry in the language. Most of them had been composed from 1350 to 1550, so the language is different from the modern English. Maybe the best ballads come from northern England and southern Scotland. The ballad is a narrative poem: it tells a story. The most popular subjects which appear are sex and vio

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

It’s composed by 4 stanzas and the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH.
There is a metaphor and the tenor is the terrible condition of poor people, the common ground is the imprisonment and the limitation of imagitation and the vehicle is the mind forg’d menecles.
There are repetitions in lines 1-2 and 4 and an anafora in line 5-6-7....

Heathcliff giura di distruggere le due famiglie che lo hanno fatto tanto soffrire. Intanto Cathy muore  dando alla luce  una bimba chiamata,  anche lei, Catherine. Heathcliff mette allora in atto una vendetta   demoniaca. Sposa Isabelle, la sorella di Edgar, che non ama,  al solo scopo di impadronirsi della fortuna dei Linton. Eserciterà in seguito  la

The Celts came from the North of Europe. They divided in two groups; a group went to Britain, the other one went to Gale. In 55 B.C Julius Caesar made the first expedition in Great Britain because he wanted to know this isle and because he wanted to punish the Celts for the help given to the Gales. He wasn’t ready to attack the Celts in a proper way; s

The lamb is described as the animal of innocence, like the creature in which there are no troubles, no tensions.
The lamb could stand both as a real animal as a symbol, in fact some natural details make you think of the real animal.
So the lamb is the symbol of God’s innocence and God’s love for his creatures.
In the second stanza the poet s

Henry Fielding
He began his career as a playwright where he immediately his taste for cutting satire on English society. He attacked the system of justice in England. The “licensing act” put an end to his theatrical career. He turned to novel writing and became on of the greatest writers of the century. He detested the sentimentally and hypocr

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