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A day, when he was fifteen years old, during a thunderstorm, a flash of lightning hit a tree and in a few seconds the tree was reduced to a hollow piece of black wood two meters high. From that he wanted to find out all he could about electricity and its incredible power.
When he was seventeen years old his mother died. After some time he left home

The first generation: Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth.
They wrote much of their work around the time of the French Revolution.
Characteristics of Romanticism.
Compare the characteristics of the Romantic poets to those of the Augustan poets who came before them:
Augustan: importance of reason and order; control of emotion and imaginatio

• Before the change from an agricultural to an industrial nation, a large share of English society was formed by small farmers. The Industrial Revolution transformed the working individual into an impersonal labour force. A system of charitable assistance supported the very poor and led to the institution of the workhouses.
• There was the necessit

There is a small garden at the front and a larger one at the back of the house,usually with a garage.
A detached house is completely separate from the other houses on each side.
A semi-detached house is joined to the house next door on one side.
The ideal home for many people is completely outside the city, in a village in the country.
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I don’t read “natural” as referring to “Nature”. I think it means the kind of instinctive (i.e. untaught) attitude that a child has, compared with the more artificial piety that can be the product of religious instruction. Wordsworth treats a child’s natural feelings of wonder, joy and awe at the sight of beautiful things as a manifestation of piety in

The development of the Modernist novel was deeply influenced by the new theories of Freud who proposed the theory of human consciousness multi-layered, involving different level of experience and memory. Therefore, perception of reality is fundamentally subjective.
The technique of free association and wordplay forms an important part of James Joyc

The strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was a novel set in Victorian London. A major component in Stevenson is the Scottish Presbyterian belief in predestination and one of his great themes is the conflict between good and evil. The conflict is at the basis of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A strange and fascinating work which can be read as a moral allegory

Durante un banchetto, Macbeth è informato della morte di Banquo e della fuga di suo figlio. Nel frattempo, la regina intrattiene gli ospiti che affollano le sale del castello, intonando un brindisi. Ma i festeggiamenti sono presto interrotti dall'apparizione dello spettro di Banquo che, invisibile a tutti, si mostra minaccioso a Macbeth. Invano Lady Mac