Letteratura Inglese

Main works
Blake’s poetical works can be divided into 3 groups (three collection of lyrics):
a) Poetical sketches: in three lyrics there are echoes from Collins, Gray, Macpherson and they have a freshness near to the songs of Shakespeare and the Elizabethans such as Spenser and Milton
b) Songs of innocence
c) Songs of experience
Bla

But this happy period was short.
In fact Virginia ‘s mother died and her father sold it.
When Virginia was thirteen , she suffered from depression for her mother.
In these years she read for long hours in her father’s library and began writing articles and essays.
In 1904her father died and she attemped the suicide by taking drugs.

There was a difficult political and economic situation.
The largest organised workers’ movement was that of the Chartists: it was a consequence of the poor conditions. radicals and workers presented to Parliament a document called "People's Charter";it asked for:
universal suffrage;
secret ballot;
abolition of poor law.
The Chartis

Penso che tutti i partiti siano d’accordo sul fatto che tutti questi bambini, in quantità enorme, che si vedono in braccio o sulla schiena o alle calcagna della madre e spesso del padre, costituiscono un serio motivo di lamentela, in aggiunta a tanti altri, nelle attuali deplorevoli condizioni di questo Regno; e, quindi, chiunque sapesse trovare un meto

            Quando raggiunsi il mio castello, giacché da allora in poi credo di averlo sempre chiamato in questo modo, mi rifugiai all'interno come se fossi stato inseguito da qualcuno. Non riesco nemmeno a ricordare se vi entrai usando la scala, come intendevo fare, o se invece passai attraverso l'apertura che avevo scavato nella roccia, e che ho desig

Features and Themes
• The Wessex novel→ his regionalism is strictly connected to the limited area of the Dorsetshire that he called “Wessex”(in Anglo-Saxon times, Wessex was one of the 7 kingdoms established in England and covered the South-western part of the country between the Tames and the South coast): a unifying element and a link be

Only persisted a rudimentary idea of it through the performances of a minstrel, a figure that tells stories of heroic deeds of warriors, travelling through lands.
In the Middle Age, theatre performances hadn’t only the role to entertain people but also to teach Christ’s stories during Easter, Christmas and the other important festivities.
The st

R. BROOKE
- Born into a well-to-do academic family
- Brooke’s poetry would have changed in tone and imaginary
- Brooke is remembered as a war poets, who inspired patriotism in the early months of the great war
- He assumed a symbolic role that turned into the myth of a young and beautiful fallen. - He didn’t get in touch wi

Chartism
Their discontent was voiced by the Chartist,a group of radicals and workers who presented to Parliament a document called the People’s Charter advocating radical reform of Parliament in six points.But the Charter was rejected and disappeared without achieving its objectives.
Worker’s rights
Factory workers had to wait fot the Reform

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