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After Mina’s best friend Lucy came to visit her in the town of Whitby many strange things happened.First, there was a hreat storm, and then that night Mina found Lucy on a bench with something black with red, shining eyes bending over Lucy’s body.After that night on the bench, Lucy got increasingly ill. Arthur asked Dr Seward for help, and Dr Seward c

IV. Sotto quegli scabri olmi, all’ombra di quel tasso, dove la zolla si solleva in molti tumuli che si sgretolano, ciascuno steso per sempre nella stretta cella , dormono i rudi progenitori del villaggio.
V. Il freddo richiamo del mattino profumato d’incenso, la rondine che cinguetta dal capanno di foglie, l’acuto suono del gallo o l’eco del corvo d

LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
Medieval French author ALAIN CHARTIER, who wrote this very famous ballad that inspired the English romantic poet Lord Byron

FRENCH FABLIAUX
In the “Le dix de perdrix” the women is a liar

WIFE OF BATH
Extroverted, not interested in sexual satisfaction but in money, she is bossy and dominant: she’s go

• Language: simple and lyrical in the songs and more difficult in the prophetic books.
• Works: “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, “Milton”, “French Revolution, a Prophecy”.

William Wordsworth
• Subject of poetry: Incidents and situation from common life.
• Language: a selection of language really used by men.
• Poetry: it

• Prison→ He was put in prison where he had known the condition of the prisoners and he fascinated by these persons.
• Love→ In 1836 he married Catherine Hogarth but the marriage wasn’t happy and they separated in 1856. He fell in love with a girl of 18 years old Ellen Ternan and this relationship caused to Dickens a sort of depression because he wa

• Health: he suffered from pneumonia which would eventually lead to tuberculosis and to a premature death.
• Love: he had an intense emotional tie with his mother who influenced his love relationship; Jessie Chambers (Miriam in “Sons and Lovers”) encouraged him to write; Frieda von Richthofen (the German lover) they fled to Germany and later married

The poet is a moral teacher. He stands apart from men for reason of sensibility.
Nature is full of life. Man and nature are inseparable part of a whole universe.
Pantheism.
Child father of the man. He has imagination because he had memory of his celestial state.
SAMUEL
TAYLOR
COLERIDGE
2 faculties:
→ Primary (common to

Plot
John Harker, a young lawyer, was sent in Transylvania by Mr Hawkins to sign a contract with Count Dracula, who lived in an isolated castle situated on a mountain.
Before he arrived at the castle, he stayed for a period in a small village situated under the mountain. In this village he noted a strange comportment of the villains, which

• 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

• 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