Letteratura Inglese

Coleridge has a particular view of imagination: it’s divided into two parts. All the people have the primary imagination, the capacity of perceiving the reality through our senses, but only the poets have the secondary imagination, the faculty of recreating images modifying, unifying and idealizing the perceptions. The fancy is a mechanical and logical

There is no record of Shakespeare’s activities during the so-called “Lost Years” of 1584-1590, but we know that in 1587 he left Stratford for London, where he became an actor and a playwright. In this period he seems to have been associated with several acting company, but, the closing of the theatres because of the bubonic plague, allowed him to devote

SUMMERY:
This work consists of four books, each dealing with the various adventures of Lemuel Gulliver:
• BOOK 1: To sustain his family, Lemuel Gulliver accepts to sail on the “Antilope” as a ship’s surgeon and he leaves Bristol on the 4th May 1699. After six months, because of a storm, he lands alone upon the shore of an island, that he di

Then Alice woke up, discovering that it was only a dream, and sometimes a nightmare.
The language used is very simple, because the will of the author was to give this book as a present to a little child, and so, very often, he invented strange words like “rocking-dragonfly”, a mix between a rocking-horse and a dragonfly....

Socio-political thoughts
Blake, therefore lived in the last part of eighteenth century and is rightly considered the embodiment of the romantic ideal.
During his lifetime all the revolution of ht e world happened: the American revolutionary war; the French revolution and the Industrial revolution.
Although he was agree with the ideal

Wordsworth used a very simple language, near to the spoken one and far from poetic diction.
Imagination played an important role; it was the capacity of modify the objects observed giving them an unusual aspect; the poet’s eyes could see the reality deeper than the ordinary people ones.
Poetry doesn’t describe just natural and simple objects wit

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

È questa un'isola davvero singolare. Consiste per lo più di sabbia marina, ed è lunga circa tre miglia. In nessun punto la sua larghezza supera il quarto di miglio. La separa dalla terraferma, a mala pena riconoscibile, l'estuario di un fiumiciattolo che defluisce in mezzo a un intrico di canne e di mota, dimora prediletta della gallinella d'acqua. Come

In the 18th century with the revaluation of supernatural it acquires a positive mean in contrast with reason and rationality of the Enlightment.

Themes
The main themes of the author in this period are:
• Individual relation between Man and Nature
• Imagination as a way to escape from the real World
• Artist as an original crea

III ATTO
Poco dopo, però, l’amicizia che univa Antonio e Cesare si scioglie poiché Cesare, come dice Antonio, “ha scatenato un’altra guerra contro Pompeo. Ha fatto e ha reso pubblico il suo testamento. Di me ha parlato di sfuggita, e quando – costretto - mi ha rivolto un elogio è stato avaro di parole, freddo e di malumore”. A questo punto assi