Letteratura Inglese

• 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

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

LISPETH

Lispeth is a Indian girl, whose parents turned Christian and baptised her after the bears destroyed their harvest. When they died of Cholera, Lispeth stayed at Christian mission. She grew into a beautiful girl.
In her habits Lispeth differs in various ways from the white people. For example, she likes taking very long walks, u...

In England, Blair entered the public school system, and was admitted to Eton College in 1917. For most students of this era, Eton led directly to higher education at a university, often Oxford or Cambridge. Blair shunned further formal schooling, and after leaving Eton in 1921, returned to India in 1922 to join the Indian Imperial Police. This work gave

• A growing interest in humble and everyday life.
• Great attention to the country.
• The rediscovery of the art and popular traditions of the Middle Ages (Gothic vogue: horrific, irrational, supernatural).
• A child was very pure, because he wasn’t still civilisation and he was closer to God.
• The Imagination was a way to express emot

Perverso, brutale, cupo e immorale, questi furono alcuni degli aggettivi con cui venne definitivo il libro alla sua prima apparizione sul mercato editoriale, e proprio per questo dobbiamo tributare grandi onori all'autrice per averle sapute riprodurre e rappresentare nonostante fosse fin da fanciulla vissuta praticamente segregata nella canonica del pad

Percy B. Shelley: OZYMANDIAS

This is a Petrarchian sonnet.
We have 3 speaker: the poet, the traveller and the faraon.
After line 8 we have the description of the passions.
Il potere causa: passioni, egoismo, arroganza, violenza, ambizione, tirannide e disprezzo.
Il tempo e la natura distruggono la vanità d...

Shelley è contro il re e i principi e attacca la cultura del tempo.
Il re ( Giorgio III) muore nel 1819 e viene sostituito dai figli.
È contro la politica agricola perché la “CORN LAW” imponeva il pagamento dei dazi per il grano proveniente dall’America; gli inglesi morivano di fame ed erano costretti a comprare il grano inglese che comunque ave

R. BROOKE
- Born into a well-to-do academic family
- Brooke’s poetry would have changed in tone and imaginary
- Brooke is remembered as a war poets, who inspired patriotism in the early months of the great war
- He assumed a symbolic role that turned into the myth of a young and beautiful fallen. - He didn’t get in touch wi

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