Letteratura Inglese

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

LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
Medieval French author ALAIN CHARTIER, who wrote this very famous ballad that inspired the English romantic poet Lord Byron

FRENCH FABLIAUX
In the “Le dix de perdrix” the women is a liar

WIFE OF BATH
Extroverted, not interested in sexual satisfaction but in money, she is bossy and dominant: she’s go

Man and the natural world
Wordsworth is interested in the relationship between man and the natural world, the contact between man and nature seen not as an objective and precise observation of natural phenomena but as emotions and sensations which arise from this contact. In fact he thinks that man and nature are inseparable: man exists not outside

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

Wordsworth used a very simple language, near to the spoken one and far from poetic diction.
Imagination played an important role; it was the capacity of modify the objects observed giving them an unusual aspect; the poet’s eyes could see the reality deeper than the ordinary people ones.
Poetry doesn’t describe just natural and simple objects wit

• Politics: A fervent supporter of the French Revolution later he turned to political and religious convervatorism (disillusioned by the period of terror).
• Love: in France William met Anne Vallon and he fell in love with her. They had a child and he wanted to marry her, but he was constricted by his family to return in England. In 1802 he married

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

Main Work: his works can be divided into 3 groups, but the earliest ones are the best known:
-Poetical Sketches, in which he refuses Augustan taste and is influenced by Shakespeare and Milton;
-Songs of Innocence, in which the childhood is the symbol of innocence;
-Songs of Experience, in which there is a pessimistic view of life;
-The M

• 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

Socio-political thoughts
Blake, therefore lived in the last part of eighteenth century and is rightly considered the embodiment of the romantic ideal.
During his lifetime all the revolution of ht e world happened: the American revolutionary war; the French revolution and the Industrial revolution.
Although he was agree with the ideal