Letteratura Inglese

• Health→ in 1781 he became ill but recovered thanks to the care of a market gardener, Boucher. He died on August 12, 1827 in poverty and obscurity.
• Personality→ he was defined “ a visionary poet” because in childhood and throughout his life, he saw visions of prophets and angels. And also of illustrious dead (Dante, Milton and others)
• Marri

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

• 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

Plot
John Harker, a young lawyer, was sent in Transylvania by Mr Hawkins to sign a contract with Count Dracula, who lived in an isolated castle situated on a mountain.
Before he arrived at the castle, he stayed for a period in a small village situated under the mountain. In this village he noted a strange comportment of the villains, which

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.
SAMUEL
TAYLOR
COLERIDGE
2 faculties:
→ Primary (common to