Letteratura Inglese

parole. Esso veniva caldamente proposto per i vantaggi che procurava
alla salute e alla velocità della comunicazione. Infatti ogni parola
che pronunciamo provoca una grossa azione corrosiva nei polmoni,
contribuendo ad abbreviarci la vita. Si proponeva dunque questo
espediente per cui,

Heathcliff giura di distruggere le due famiglie che lo hanno fatto tanto soffrire. Intanto Cathy muore  dando alla luce  una bimba chiamata,  anche lei, Catherine. Heathcliff mette allora in atto una vendetta   demoniaca. Sposa Isabelle, la sorella di Edgar, che non ama,  al solo scopo di impadronirsi della fortuna dei Linton. Eserciterà in seguito  la

The second story talks about Maria and Malvolio (Olivia’s steward). She play him a truck, she wrote a letter to make Malvolio ridiculous. Ih the letter she had written that the countess had fallen in love with him and she made some requests (to wear yellow garter and to have hostile attidute) that make Malvolio ridiculous. Everyone thought that he had b

About poetic technique, the romantic poets used a new and individual style a different poetic diction that means more vivid and familiar words and not the artificial circumlocutions of the early 18th century diction, for example: symbols and images lost their decorative functions to assume a vital role.
About verse forms, there was a retur

5-la riforma inglese
6-l importanza di una nuova classe media
Enrico VII ,nato nel 1485, fu il re di cui l Inghilterra aveva bisogno in questo periodo, devastato da continue guerre dinastiche. Egli mise fine a quest ultime sposando Elisabetta degli York.
Oltre ad essere un abile diplomatico egli era anche economico e crudele quando necessari

Alone and palely loitering? And honey wild, and manna dew;
The sedge has withered from the Lake And sure in language strange she said
And no birds sing! I love thee true –

O what can ail the Knight at arms, She took me to her el

The title seems to revolve the play on Caesar, in reality, the play is named after him, and the events of the play all relate to him. However, Caesar only appears in three scenes (four if the ghost is included), thus apparently making him an unlikely choice for the protagonist, who is supposed to be the main character. Meanwhile, Brutus, who is in the p

In returned to Dublin in 1699, when the father died. In London he met Steele and Addison and they wrote A tale of Tub.
He was active in the politic life and he supported the Wings; but after he joined the Tories; he was introduced to writers of similar political views( such us Pope, Gay, Congreve); together they formed the Scriblerus Club( they s

John Milton works can be divided into 3 phases:

Phase 1: When he was a student he wrote poetry in Latin and in 1629 he wrote his first masterpiece, the Ode on the Morning of Christ’s nativity(a celebration of the coming of Christ and the abandonment of pagan Gods.
Milton was fascinated by Italian culture. He studied writers like Petrar

Paradise Lost
Is a religious epic poem. The epic is a very ancient form of poetry, originating in an age before writing, like Odyssey, Iliad and Bewulf. Paradise lost takes place in the universe: in Heaven, Hell and Eden, the caracthers are God, Satan, Christ, Man and the angels. Although Milton was familiar with the Copernican cosmology he bas