Letteratura Inglese

1798 wrote Northanger Abbey

when her father died, her family settled at Chawton, where she produce her most nature works
→ Mansfiedl Park (1814)
→ Emma (1816)
→ Persuasion (1818)

1817: die because of Addison's disease in Winchester (buried in Winchester Cathedral)
her novel had been publishe

His most important work is SONGS OF EXPERIENCE (1794) .
He also wrote : THE FRENCH REVOLUTION , A POEM IN SEVEN BOOKS (1791) , A MERICA A PROPHECY (1793) and MILTON (1803-08)

songs of innocence(1789) and songs of experience(1793) :
songs of innocence and songs of experience are two distinct but parallel productions , they are comp

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

The expression “Industrial Revolution” usually refers to that period in which England had an economic development from 1760 to the middle of the 19th century,and it sealed the Britain’s transformation from an agricultural to an industrial country.
During this revolution , new sources of power (for example coal

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1881/82 - Alla pubblicazione del primo volume di poemi nel 1881, Poems, seguì un fortunato ciclo di conferenze negli Stati Uniti sui preraffaeliti e sull'estetismo. Tornato in Europa, si stabilisce a Parigi, dove scrive due drammi romantici: Vera e La duchessa di Padova. Anche a Parigi i suoi modi di gran signore e la sua conversazione brillante, in cui

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

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

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

The second story talks about Maria and Malvolio (Olivia’s steward). She play him a truck, she wrote a letter to make Malvolio ridiculous. Ih the letter she had written that the countess had fallen in love with him and she made some requests (to wear yellow garter and to have hostile attidute) that make Malvolio ridiculous. Everyone thought that he had b

Shaw’s masterpiece is “Pygmalion” whose title is inspired by “Metamorphoses” by Ovid, a Greek legend telling about a sculptor who scorns a statue of a woman and falls in love with it; Aphrodite (the goodness of love) transforms the sculpture into a real woman and, at the end, the artist marries his creation. “Pygmalion” is a play dealing with a bet betw