Letteratura Inglese

A Protestant humanist
Milton started writing poetry early. As a student in Cambridge he wrote his first important work, Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nutivity, where the fusion of Christian and classica1 elements was already present. From 1632 to 1638 Milton lived at his father’s country house, studying and conposing poetry, for example L’Allegvo

In 1638 Milton went to Italy where he met Galilei and other learned people, but had to come back to England when the civil war broke out. He was a supporter of Oliver Cromwell.
In 1644 Milton wrote Aeropagitica in which advocated liberty of speech and liberty of the press.
In 1649 he wrote Tenure of Kings and Magistrates in which he justified t

With the odes is also to be remembered the ballad of “La Belle Dame sans merci” a poem an the old theme of the femme fatale.
In 1820, the symptoms of consumption (tuberculosis) became evident. So he travelled to Italy in an attempt to recover his health but he died in Rome in 1821 and he was buried in the Protestant Cemetery of Rome. Keats lived o s

lei, tutta la bellezza di figlia delle fate aveva,
capelli assai lunghi, e leggeri i suoi piedi,
e selvaggi i suoi occhi.
 
Io feci una ghirlanda pel suo capo,
e pur bracciali, e odorosa cintura;
lei mi guardò com' avria fatto amore,
dolcemente gemette.
 
Io mi stetti con lei, sul mio cavallo
al passo, e

• Religion→ he was not religious in any orthodox sense: he rejected orthodox Christianity and evolved in his own philosophy of the world as a “vale of soul making” in which suffering is necessary to “refine the soul to give it individuality and to enable it to appreciate beauty”.
Features and themes
• Keats’s life was troubled by famil

→ He starts from the particular, concrete, physical to general, abstract, spiritual,
Universal
• wit → ability to use strange metaphors
• paradox → a statement that seems absurd, but that expresses a truth
• pun → a play on words based on different meanings of words that sound alike
• simil

Metaphisical poetry reflects the crisis of the renaissance man: he looks for a new trhuth and dimension and he tries to give voice to chaotic experience that is ordinary life:his poetry is difficult because life is chaotic irregualr, difficult.
THE SUN RISING
At the beginning he addresses the sun using an insulting,angry,scornful tone. When he s

1798 wrote Northanger Abbey

when her father died, her family settled at Chawton, where she produce her most nature works
→ Mansfiedl Park (1814)
→ Emma (1816)
→ Persuasion (1818)

1817: die because of Addison's disease in Winchester (buried in Winchester Cathedral)
her novel had been publishe

• Personality→ before the meeting with Nora Barnacle he abandoned himself to the dissolute life (he became also an alcohol addicted).

Features and Themes

• Artist→ it had to be “invisible” in his work (he must not express his own point of view). He had only to report the thought and the experience of his characters.
• Relationship

Their writing was mainlt influenced by the theories of the austrian doctor Sigmund Freud, who explained that the development of our personality was greatly affected by the unconscious, the hidden part of ourselves.
By studiing the human mind, Frued gave great importance to the interpretation of dremas and to the free associations of thoughts. Ac