Features and Themes
• The Wessex novel→ his regionalism is strictly connected to the limited area of the Dorsetshire that he called “Wessex”(in Anglo-Saxon times, Wessex was one of the 7 kingdoms established in England and covered the South-western part of the country between the Tames and the South coast): a unifying element and a link be
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• 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
• 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
• Education→ Aristocratic public school (Eton), then he entered in Oxford University where he was expelled because of a pamphlet “The necessity of Atheism”
• Personality→ he was eccentric and Flamboyant, despised social convention. He was labeled “Mad Shelley”. He was really generous. He suffered of mental anxiety, melancholy, crises of dejection an
• 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
• Religion→ he was not religious in any orthodox sense: he rejected orthodox Christianity and evolved in his own philosophy of the world as a “vale of soul making” in which suffering is necessary to “refine the soul to give it individuality and to enable it to appreciate beauty”.
Features and themes
• Keats’s life was troubled by famil
• Personality→ before the meeting with Nora Barnacle he abandoned himself to the dissolute life (he became also an alcohol addicted).
Features and Themes
• Artist→ it had to be “invisible” in his work (he must not express his own point of view). He had only to report the thought and the experience of his characters.
• Relationship
The poet is a moral teacher. He stands apart from men for reason of sensibility.
Nature is full of life. Man and nature are inseparable part of a whole universe.
Pantheism.
Child father of the man. He has imagination because he had memory of his celestial state.
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COLERIDGE
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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
• 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