Letteratura Inglese

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

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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

Main Work: his works can be divided into 3 groups, but the earliest ones are the best known:
-Poetical Sketches, in which he refuses Augustan taste and is influenced by Shakespeare and Milton;
-Songs of Innocence, in which the childhood is the symbol of innocence;
-Songs of Experience, in which there is a pessimistic view of life;
-The M

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

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

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

It is a very realistic and detailed passage. There are a lot of epithet thanes, kennings, adjectives like strong, gallant and fearless. The Anglo-Saxon soldiers were brave, generous, courageous and loyal. The betrayal was a serious fault.
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Circa la riscrittura del dramma shakespeariano “Riccardo III”si può notare non solo come Bene sia in grado di citare Eliot facendo sì che la sua poetica si fondi completamente con quella riccardiana senza quasi lasciare traccia di contaminazione apparente, ma anche come riesca ad amputare parti del testo o a trascrivere dialoghi e monologhi tagli

1881/82 - Alla pubblicazione del primo volume di poemi nel 1881, Poems, seguì un fortunato ciclo di conferenze negli Stati Uniti sui preraffaeliti e sull'estetismo. Tornato in Europa, si stabilisce a Parigi, dove scrive due drammi romantici: Vera e La duchessa di Padova. Anche a Parigi i suoi modi di gran signore e la sua conversazione brillante, in cui