Letteratura Inglese

In returned to Dublin in 1699, when the father died. In London he met Steele and Addison and they wrote A tale of Tub.
He was active in the politic life and he supported the Wings; but after he joined the Tories; he was introduced to writers of similar political views( such us Pope, Gay, Congreve); together they formed the Scriblerus Club( they s

Main Work: his works can be divided into 3 groups, but the earliest ones are the best known:
-Poetical Sketches, in which he refuses Augustan taste and is influenced by Shakespeare and Milton;
-Songs of Innocence, in which the childhood is the symbol of innocence;
-Songs of Experience, in which there is a pessimistic view of life;
-The M

Then Alice woke up, discovering that it was only a dream, and sometimes a nightmare.
The language used is very simple, because the will of the author was to give this book as a present to a little child, and so, very often, he invented strange words like “rocking-dragonfly”, a mix between a rocking-horse and a dragonfly....

Alone and palely loitering? And honey wild, and manna dew;
The sedge has withered from the Lake And sure in language strange she said
And no birds sing! I love thee true –

O what can ail the Knight at arms, She took me to her el

He was deeply religious.

BRITISH CHARACTERS

Mrs Moore : was an old woman who had just arrived in Chandrepore from Britain. She had come to India to see her son, Ronny who was the city magistrate.
Adela: was Ronny’s fiancée, they were engaged. She had gone to Chandrepore to meet Ronny and she wanted to know “real India”.
Ronny:

In literature we can see a clear break with the previous ideas: the presence of reason, common sense, realism and formality of the Augustan Age are replaced with the individualism, free expression of personal feelings and emotions and imagination as source of inspiration that characterized the Romanticism.
The English Romantic period was dominated b

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• 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

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

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