Inglese

The Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxon invaders were organised in family groups, called clans, where the most important social bond was loyalty to the other members and to the lord. They exalted courage, personal freedom and beauty and enjoyed feasting and drinking.
The Christianisation of Britain
Roman Britain had been Christian until Christianit

The two major epic poems are Iliad and Odyssey attributed to the Greek poet Homer. Later examples of epic poems are Aeneid of Virgil and the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf.
1)It is a long narrative poetical composition.
2)It deals with the recollection of a glorious past in the national history of a country and the brave deeds of heroes.
3)It contains

LIFE ART (refuge sought to escape his sorrow)
Source of sufferings and pains and its beauty
(anticipation of Aestheticism)
TRANCIENCE

Canterbury Tales (1387)
The plot
It is spring and thirty people, all belonging to different social classes and including Chaucer himself, are going on a pilgrimage to Thomas Becket’s shrine in Canterbury. They gather at the Tabard Inn in London. The host of the inn suggests that every pilgrim should tell two stories while going to Canterbury, an

To show the dichotomy between Good and Evil in human life and within the human soul, Blake wrote pairs of poems thaat expressed opposing views on the same topic. In The Lamb’ from the Songs of Innocence, the reader is presentend with an image of a gentle,benevolent, loving God. In ‘The Tyger’ from Songs of Experience, Godmis vindictive and terrifying.~~

L’arte e la scienza della restaurazione di edifici, include un grande rango di attività, dalla alte tecniche di ricerca e riproduzione di materiali, fino alle rifiniture e i metodi di costruzione svolti da professionisti qualificati per la sostituzione di elementi che interessano i vecchi edifici. Si presume che la conoscenza includa metodi usati dagli

• There are personifications.
• There are references to Greek mythology
• Supernatural events like transformations.
• There are wonderful creatures.
• There are Christian elements.
• In the tales is reflected the contemporary English society
• The Canterbury tales is incomplete .
• The pilgrims’ names often are refer

It was then that Sam Wanamaker conceived the project of building an exact replica of the Globe as a memorial to William Shakespeare, the greatest playwright of western civilization.
In 1968, the Shakespeare’s Globe Trust was formed and the battle to rebuild the Globe began. It would last up to 1986, when the courts finally decided in favour of the G

James Vane, Basil Hallward, Sybil Vane – questi morti non erano importanti per lui adesso. Era meglio non pensare al passato. Niente poteva cambiare ciò. Lui doveva pensare a se stesso. “Forse” egli pensò “se vivessi una vita migliore, il ritratto diventerebbe meno brutto”. Egli ricordò la graziosa ragazza del villaggio – egli non aveva distrutto la sua