Letteratura Inglese

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

BLAKE
symbolism
The most famous images Blake uses to represent these two states are the lamb and the tiger. The LAMB is a symbol of the innocence of childhood. Some critics have pointed out that the infantile qualities of the lamb, related to the idea of weakness and innocence, refer also to the God of love and infinite forgiveness of the

• 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

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

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

About poetic technique, the romantic poets used a new and individual style a different poetic diction that means more vivid and familiar words and not the artificial circumlocutions of the early 18th century diction, for example: symbols and images lost their decorative functions to assume a vital role.
About verse forms, there was a retur

In literature we can see a clear break with the previous ideas: the presence of reason, common sense, realism and formality of the Augustan Age are replaced with the individualism, free expression of personal feelings and emotions and imagination as source of inspiration that characterized the Romanticism.
The English Romantic period was dominated b

Main works
Blake’s poetical works can be divided into 3 groups (three collection of lyrics):
a) Poetical sketches: in three lyrics there are echoes from Collins, Gray, Macpherson and they have a freshness near to the songs of Shakespeare and the Elizabethans such as Spenser and Milton
b) Songs of innocence
c) Songs of experience
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Features and Themes
• The Wessex novel→ his regionalism is strictly connected to the limited area of the Dorsetshire that he called “Wessex”(in Anglo-Saxon times, Wessex was one of the 7 kingdoms established in England and covered the South-western part of the country between the Tames and the South coast): a unifying element and a link be

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