Letteratura Inglese

Penso che tutti i partiti siano d’accordo sul fatto che tutti questi bambini, in quantità enorme, che si vedono in braccio o sulla schiena o alle calcagna della madre e spesso del padre, costituiscono un serio motivo di lamentela, in aggiunta a tanti altri, nelle attuali deplorevoli condizioni di questo Regno; e, quindi, chiunque sapesse trovare un meto

• Prison→ He was put in prison where he had known the condition of the prisoners and he fascinated by these persons.
• Love→ In 1836 he married Catherine Hogarth but the marriage wasn’t happy and they separated in 1856. He fell in love with a girl of 18 years old Ellen Ternan and this relationship caused to Dickens a sort of depression because he wa

Circa la riscrittura del dramma shakespeariano “Riccardo III”si può notare non solo come Bene sia in grado di citare Eliot facendo sì che la sua poetica si fondi completamente con quella riccardiana senza quasi lasciare traccia di contaminazione apparente, ma anche come riesca ad amputare parti del testo o a trascrivere dialoghi e monologhi tagli

A Protestant humanist
Milton started writing poetry early. As a student in Cambridge he wrote his first important work, Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nutivity, where the fusion of Christian and classica1 elements was already present. From 1632 to 1638 Milton lived at his father’s country house, studying and conposing poetry, for example L’Allegvo

The novel deals with the theme of the double in human nature; in fact both good and evil are in each human being. In the story good Is represented by Dr Jekyll and evil by Mr Hyde. Their physical aspect reflects moral characteristics: Jekyll has always been virtues and so he is handsome, his body is well-proportioned and his hands are white and well-sho

- The Anglo-Saxons: after the Romans withdrew definitively, around the year 450 B.C., in Britain arrived some German tribes (Anglos, Saxons, and Jutes). Originally they destroyed the roman town and re-established the pagan values. The Celts continued to resist the invaders but suffered from internal fighting. Many Celtics people fled to the west of Brit

Wordsworth used a very simple language, near to the spoken one and far from poetic diction.
Imagination played an important role; it was the capacity of modify the objects observed giving them an unusual aspect; the poet’s eyes could see the reality deeper than the ordinary people ones.
Poetry doesn’t describe just natural and simple objects wit

• Marriage→ he married Constance Lloyd and they had 2 children, but wasn’t an happy relationship. They divorced because in 1886 Wilde was accused of homosexuality by the father of his lover, who was lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde was sentenced to 2 years of hard labour.
Features and Themes
• He was an eclectic personality. His output cover

Wordsworth was born as the second of five children in Cockermouth, Cumberland—part of the scenic region in northwest England called the Lake District. With the death of his mother in 1778, his father sent him to Hawkshead Grammar School. But in 1783 his father, a lawyer, and right-hand man of the most important (and despised) man in the area, died leavi

There is no record of Shakespeare’s activities during the so-called “Lost Years” of 1584-1590, but we know that in 1587 he left Stratford for London, where he became an actor and a playwright. In this period he seems to have been associated with several acting company, but, the closing of the theatres because of the bubonic plague, allowed him to devote