Letteratura Inglese

Chartism
Their discontent was voiced by the Chartist,a group of radicals and workers who presented to Parliament a document called the People’s Charter advocating radical reform of Parliament in six points.But the Charter was rejected and disappeared without achieving its objectives.
Worker’s rights
Factory workers had to wait fot the Reform

Man and the natural world
Wordsworth is interested in the relationship between man and the natural world, the contact between man and nature seen not as an objective and precise observation of natural phenomena but as emotions and sensations which arise from this contact. In fact he thinks that man and nature are inseparable: man exists not outside

Main works
Blake’s poetical works can be divided into 3 groups (three collection of lyrics):
a) Poetical sketches: in three lyrics there are echoes from Collins, Gray, Macpherson and they have a freshness near to the songs of Shakespeare and the Elizabethans such as Spenser and Milton
b) Songs of innocence
c) Songs of experience
Bla

THE FEAST after that Hrothgar's men invited the Geats to the banquet and offered them to seat to the courageous visitors. The cellarman carried flasks of mead to the feast. The mead was bright and sweet . the bard enterteined the visitors with songs and everybody drank and enjoyed themselves.
BEOWULF SPOKE… Beowulf who is the son of t

John Milton works can be divided into 3 phases:

Phase 1: When he was a student he wrote poetry in Latin and in 1629 he wrote his first masterpiece, the Ode on the Morning of Christ’s nativity(a celebration of the coming of Christ and the abandonment of pagan Gods.
Milton was fascinated by Italian culture. He studied writers like Petrar

→ He starts from the particular, concrete, physical to general, abstract, spiritual,
Universal
• wit → ability to use strange metaphors
• paradox → a statement that seems absurd, but that expresses a truth
• pun → a play on words based on different meanings of words that sound alike
• simil

In 1638 Milton went to Italy where he met Galilei and other learned people, but had to come back to England when the civil war broke out. He was a supporter of Oliver Cromwell.
In 1644 Milton wrote Aeropagitica in which advocated liberty of speech and liberty of the press.
In 1649 he wrote Tenure of Kings and Magistrates in which he justified t

With the odes is also to be remembered the ballad of “La Belle Dame sans merci” a poem an the old theme of the femme fatale.
In 1820, the symptoms of consumption (tuberculosis) became evident. So he travelled to Italy in an attempt to recover his health but he died in Rome in 1821 and he was buried in the Protestant Cemetery of Rome. Keats lived o s

• Health: he suffered from pneumonia which would eventually lead to tuberculosis and to a premature death.
• Love: he had an intense emotional tie with his mother who influenced his love relationship; Jessie Chambers (Miriam in “Sons and Lovers”) encouraged him to write; Frieda von Richthofen (the German lover) they fled to Germany and later married

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