Letteratura Inglese

AFTER THE WAR
Ten years after the end of the war, all the olde values had benn swept away: there was nothing to believe in and nothing to fight for. To give a voice to this common dissatisfaction, it developed a general protest agains society. The declin of the British Empire and the Cold War generated a sense of uncertainty and angouscius. The

TOPIC: The picture of Dorian Gray
THEMES: 1) cult of the beauty
2) hidden identity and corruption of soul
SUPPORTING SENTENCES (OR PERIODS):
• “I’m jealous of the portrait you have painted of me, Basil, every mome

As regards natural elements, we can find: “Sylvan” on line 3, “flowery” on line 4, “leaf” on line 5 and “dales of Arcady” on line 7. There is also an expression referring to PASSION: “wild ecstasy” on line 10. Also SOME PEOPLE are mentioned: “bride” on line 1, “foster-child” on line 2, “deities or mortals” on line 6 and “men or gods” on line 8. In this

It is a very realistic and detailed passage. There are a lot of epithet thanes, kennings, adjectives like strong, gallant and fearless. The Anglo-Saxon soldiers were brave, generous, courageous and loyal. The betrayal was a serious fault.
☻Parafrasi
vv. 9 I suoi coraggiosi seguaci trovarono poco da ridire sulla sua audace avventura, anche se g

Robert Browning’s great works are ‘The Ring and the Book’ and ‘Dramatic Romances and Lyrics’. The extract we can read is ‘A heart… too soon made glad’, which belongs to the ‘My Last Duchess’. The setting is the castle of the Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso II D’Este and he spoke about his forst wife, who he killed after 3 years of marriage (1561). His wife’s

• They met 2 sister Edith and Sarah Fricker that they married. But for Coleridge was a very unhappy marriage.
• In 1796 he went to Nether Stowey, a village in Somerset, where he began a very important friendship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth.
• With William he went to Germany to study Kant and then they went to the Lake District in the nor

With Frieda, he travelled to Italy, Ceylon, Australia, North America and Mexico and wrote several books among the most remarkable is “Twilight in Italy”. He died ill with tuberculosis in France in 1930.
Lawrence’s masterpiece is “Sons and Lovers” (published in 1913). It tells about the Morels, a family, living in a poor coal-mining village, who

Celts
The Celts began to arrive from north-west Germany from 700 B.C. The Celts were remarkable to Mediterranean eyes for their height, fair skin, muscularity, blue eyes and blond hair. The Celts were technically advanced and they lived on fishing, hunting and agriculture. They were famous for their burial sites and for their hill-forts, built on th

Their writing was mainlt influenced by the theories of the austrian doctor Sigmund Freud, who explained that the development of our personality was greatly affected by the unconscious, the hidden part of ourselves.
By studiing the human mind, Frued gave great importance to the interpretation of dremas and to the free associations of thoughts. Ac

• Health→ He soon began to suffer respiratory illness (tuberculosis and continuous Haemorrhages).
• Love→ He married Fanny Osbourne, and American lady separated by her husband : his parents didn’t accept this marriage.

Features and Themes

• Novel as evasion from everyday life into adventure.
• He was a bohemian writer rejecting