Letteratura Inglese

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

→ He starts from the particular, concrete, physical to general, abstract, spiritual,
Universal
• wit → ability to use strange metaphors
• paradox → a statement that seems absurd, but that expresses a truth
• pun → a play on words based on different meanings of words that sound alike
• simil

Wordsworth was born as the second of five children in Cockermouth, Cumberland—part of the scenic region in northwest England called the Lake District. With the death of his mother in 1778, his father sent him to Hawkshead Grammar School. But in 1783 his father, a lawyer, and right-hand man of the most important (and despised) man in the area, died leavi

• 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

• 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

During the reign of queen Victoria between 1837 1901 there was the first reform act. The queen was the example of way of life. It was a period of material progress and social reforms. Chartism was a working-class movement and it want social reforms and the extension of the right to vote. In 1851 the Great Exhibition made manifest Britain’s leading polit

BLAKE
symbolism
The most famous images Blake uses to represent these two states are the lamb and the tiger. The LAMB is a symbol of the innocence of childhood. Some critics have pointed out that the infantile qualities of the lamb, related to the idea of weakness and innocence, refer also to the God of love and infinite forgiveness of the

• Language: simple and lyrical in the songs and more difficult in the prophetic books.
• Works: “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, “Milton”, “French Revolution, a Prophecy”.

William Wordsworth
• Subject of poetry: Incidents and situation from common life.
• Language: a selection of language really used by men.
• Poetry: it

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

• 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