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THE MANIFESTO OF ENGLISH ROMANTICISM
Wordsworth did not want to write following the standars of eighteenth-century poetry. In his Preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads ,he stated what the subject matter and the language of poetry should be. Poetry should deal with everyday situations or incidents and with ordinary people, especi

Poverty: the poor were over 120000 and they were domestic servant that worked 80-hour weeks for only one halfpence per hour.More young woman between 15 and 22 years old were prostitutes.Somebody collected dog excrement to sell to leather tanners.or they were the “mudlarks”and walked barefoot into the Thames to find wood or coal. Slums: t

Chapter 2
Tom Jones and Master Blifil grew up together. They had two tutors: Mr Square and Mr Thwackum. When Tom was 14, one day, he went shooting with the gamekeeper, George Seagrim, on Squire Western’s Land. But the man heard their gun go off; the gamekeeper escaped and the man caught Tom; he protected his friend. But one day, during an argum

• the stock characters
• a policeman
• an urban setting
Arthur Conan Doyle the creator of Sherlock Holmes adopted Poe’s recipe
Doyle made the plots of his stories more sophisticated; while keeping to the urban environment, he sometimes introduced some exotic elements
EDGARD ALLAN POE

When Lysander and Hermia remain alone, in the scene enters Helena, that is really fall in love with Demetrius, and the 2 lovers explain to her that they would run away from Athens to marry the fallowing night.
Then, in the house of Quince; Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snout, Starveling and him organize a play to be performed at Theseus' wedding, the craftsm

SHELLEY’S THEME
Almost all works by Shelley show his restless spirit, his refusal form of social conventions, political oppression and any form of tyranny, and his faith in a better future. If his works display a certain lack of finish, it must be put down to his passionate character. Less disciplined and methodical than Wordsworth or Coleridge, he

Jane Austen (Steventon, Hampshire 1775 - Winchester 1817), scrittrice britannica, che ebbe grande influenza sullo sviluppo del romanzo inglese. Suo padre era un ecclesiastico e si preoccupт che ricevesse la tipica educazione che all’epoca si impartiva alle giovani di buona famiglia. All’interno della sua famiglia, la sorella Cassandra era la persona a c

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Many Victorians believed that the difference between men and women were determined by nature. “If they were born animals as men are, instead of angels as women are” then we could forgive immorality in a woman as easily as in a man, argued one late Victorian journalist. The novelist Thackeray wrote that “women are pure, but not men”. Women were thought t

Physical beauty and spiritual beauty
His first approach of beauty comes from the senses, from the concrete physical sensations. For Wordsworth only sight and hearing but for Keats all the senses are very important. This “physical beauty” is in all the forms of nature, in its colours, in its perfumes, in a woman, so beauty seen in all its detail