Letteratura Inglese

When these Germanica ribes arrived in England, they destroyed many Roman cities (exept London who became the mosto impostant commercial centre) and cancelled the Roman civilization and language. The Celtic civilization survived only in Wales, Scotland, Cornwall and Ireland. Although (sebbene) the Anglo-Saxons brought thei pagan religion, Christianity co

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
Tormented by thirst, the other members of the crew hang the albatross around the mariner's neck as

ACT OF SUPREMACY
Reason:
Henry VIII wanted to divorce his first wife.
Anticlerical resentment against the rich clergy
Effect:
Monasteries were dissolved and their estates annexed by the king.
THE WIFE AND THE CHILDREN OF HENRY VIII

Catherine of Aragon Mary I
Anne Boleyn

• They met 2 sister Edith and Sarah Fricker that they married. But for Coleridge was a very unhappy marriage.
• In 1796 he went to Nether Stowey, a village in Somerset, where he began a very important friendship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth.
• With William he went to Germany to study Kant and then they went to the Lake District in the nor

Coleridge has a particular view of imagination: it’s divided into two parts. All the people have the primary imagination, the capacity of perceiving the reality through our senses, but only the poets have the secondary imagination, the faculty of recreating images modifying, unifying and idealizing the perceptions. The fancy is a mechanical and logical

AFTER THE WAR
Ten years after the end of the war, all the olde values had benn swept away: there was nothing to believe in and nothing to fight for. To give a voice to this common dissatisfaction, it developed a general protest agains society. The declin of the British Empire and the Cold War generated a sense of uncertainty and angouscius. The

Second Act - Romeo can't return to home at the end of the party and goes, without be seen, in the Capuleti's garden where hears Juliet speaking alone about her desperate love for him. They meet and confess their love each other. Juliet tells Romeo that the day after she will send someone to him to have a confirmation of Romeo's real intention to ma

There is no record of Shakespeare’s activities during the so-called “Lost Years” of 1584-1590, but we know that in 1587 he left Stratford for London, where he became an actor and a playwright. In this period he seems to have been associated with several acting company, but, the closing of the theatres because of the bubonic plague, allowed him to devote

In literature we can see a clear break with the previous ideas: the presence of reason, common sense, realism and formality of the Augustan Age are replaced with the individualism, free expression of personal feelings and emotions and imagination as source of inspiration that characterized the Romanticism.
The English Romantic period was dominated b

Robinson è uno spirito libero che decidi di viaggiare. Anche se il padre è contrario.
In uno dei suoi viaggi robinson naufraga su un isola deserta. Egli è l'unico sopravvissuto.
Sull'isola rimane per 28 anni. Comunque Robinson dopo un pò di tempo impara a vivere sull'isola: addomestica gli animali, pesca, costruisce case. Inoltre salva