Letteratura Inglese

Setting 
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The action takes place in London and its environs in the early 1700's on a single day. The story begins at noon (Canto I) at the London residence of Belinda as she carefully prepares herself for a gala social gathering. The scene then shifts (Canto II) to a boat carrying Belinda up the Thames. To onlookers she is as magnificent as

Robert Browning’s great works are ‘The Ring and the Book’ and ‘Dramatic Romances and Lyrics’. The extract we can read is ‘A heart… too soon made glad’, which belongs to the ‘My Last Duchess’. The setting is the castle of the Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso II D’Este and he spoke about his forst wife, who he killed after 3 years of marriage (1561). His wife’s

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

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

There are some methods to depict consciousness because of it often combines past-present-future.These methods are for example flashbacks fade-out or slow-up , the use of similes and metaphors or particoular forms of punctuation.
Interior monologue
The basic and the most used method is the use of “interior monologue” that is differ

Paradise Lost
Is a religious epic poem. The epic is a very ancient form of poetry, originating in an age before writing, like Odyssey, Iliad and Bewulf. Paradise lost takes place in the universe: in Heaven, Hell and Eden, the caracthers are God, Satan, Christ, Man and the angels. Although Milton was familiar with the Copernican cosmology he bas

Allevato nella religione protestante, Wilde studiò alla Portora Royal School di Enniskillen ed al Trinity College di Dublino, dove si distinse come latinista e grecista e vinse una borsa di studio per il Magdalene College di Oxford. Qui fu sensibile a varie influenze: il cattolicesimo di Newman, che lo interessò come critica alla religione della maggio

ACT OF SUPREMACY
Reason:
Henry VIII wanted to divorce his first wife.
Anticlerical resentment against the rich clergy
Effect:
Monasteries were dissolved and their estates annexed by the king.
THE WIFE AND THE CHILDREN OF HENRY VIII

Catherine of Aragon Mary I
Anne Boleyn

Percy B. Shelley: OZYMANDIAS

This is a Petrarchian sonnet.
We have 3 speaker: the poet, the traveller and the faraon.
After line 8 we have the description of the passions.
Il potere causa: passioni, egoismo, arroganza, violenza, ambizione, tirannide e disprezzo.
Il tempo e la natura distruggono la vanità d...

When his mother moved to London, Bernard joined her years later; there he attended public lectures and joined debating societies.
In 1882 he met Henry George, an American socialist writer who initiated him into socialist theories. He read a volume of Karl Marx’s in French and joined the Fabian Society. He rejected the idea of any revolutionary and