Letteratura Inglese

As regards natural elements, we can find: “Sylvan” on line 3, “flowery” on line 4, “leaf” on line 5 and “dales of Arcady” on line 7. There is also an expression referring to PASSION: “wild ecstasy” on line 10. Also SOME PEOPLE are mentioned: “bride” on line 1, “foster-child” on line 2, “deities or mortals” on line 6 and “men or gods” on line 8. In this

THE FEAST after that Hrothgar's men invited the Geats to the banquet and offered them to seat to the courageous visitors. The cellarman carried flasks of mead to the feast. The mead was bright and sweet . the bard enterteined the visitors with songs and everybody drank and enjoyed themselves.
BEOWULF SPOKE… Beowulf who is the son of t

The king was elected by the witan composed by the most important nobles or thanes from the seven kingdoms. They were organized in villages. Every village was governed by the thane whose task was to make everybody obey the law and to guide his man to battle. There were no prisons, the criminals where mutilated, hanged or submitted to a trial by ordeal.

PROSE (pag.55)
Anglo-Saxon prose developed thanks to King Alfred who ordered to write the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. He was a very learned man and founded a school for nobles and he himself translated “Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum” by Bede and De Consolatione Filosofiae by Boezio. Then we have to remember Aelfric who translated from the Old Te

The Celts came from the North of Europe. They divided in two groups; a group went to Britain, the other one went to Gale. In 55 B.C Julius Caesar made the first expedition in Great Britain because he wanted to know this isle and because he wanted to punish the Celts for the help given to the Gales. He wasn’t ready to attack the Celts in a proper way; s

The old English ballads include the best exciting poetry in the language. Most of them had been composed from 1350 to 1550, so the language is different from the modern English. Maybe the best ballads come from northern England and southern Scotland. The ballad is a narrative poem: it tells a story. The most popular subjects which appear are sex and vio

The most important cases of criminality were administered by judges nominated by the king himself, so he had a complete control of the country. In 1086 William ordered an inquiry of the country where there was every piece of land, every house and every person. This was called the Domesday Book. The Normans lived in manors that comprised the baron’s or

Il puritanesimo scatenerà la guerra civile contro l'anglicanesimo. All'inizio trionfa il puritanesimo ma alla fine i puritani sono costretti a migrare in un nuovo paese.
Giacomo I creò la "Union Jack". "union Jack" era l'unione di Irlanda, Scozia e Inghilterra. Però Questa era molto instabile perchè c'era differenze religiose e un forte ass

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

He prefaces his actual reading with background information about the governess, the youngest daughter of a poor country parson from Hampshire, who at age of twenty answered an advertisement placed by a gentleman seeking a governess for his orphaned niece and nephew. The young woman, met with the gentleman on London's Harley Street. She was immediately i