Letteratura Inglese

Penso che tutti i partiti siano d’accordo sul fatto che tutti questi bambini, in quantità enorme, che si vedono in braccio o sulla schiena o alle calcagna della madre e spesso del padre, costituiscono un serio motivo di lamentela, in aggiunta a tanti altri, nelle attuali deplorevoli condizioni di questo Regno; e, quindi, chiunque sapesse trovare un meto

The structure of novels
Defoe’s long narratives are fictional autobiographies always pretending to be “true” stories through the biographical details and memories provided by the protagonist. The structure of the novels is characterised by a series of episodes and adventures held together by the unifying presence of a single hero. Defoe’s method of

• 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

1881/82 - Alla pubblicazione del primo volume di poemi nel 1881, Poems, seguì un fortunato ciclo di conferenze negli Stati Uniti sui preraffaeliti e sull'estetismo. Tornato in Europa, si stabilisce a Parigi, dove scrive due drammi romantici: Vera e La duchessa di Padova. Anche a Parigi i suoi modi di gran signore e la sua conversazione brillante, in cui

Two men, in particular, contributed to its rise, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, with the periodicals “The Tatler” and “The Spectator”.
But at the beginning of this century, beyond “The Spectator” in England there were other important journals: “The Review”, “The Examiner”, “The Gentlemen’s Magazine” and “The Champion”.
“The Review” by Daniel

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

John Milton works can be divided into 3 phases:

Phase 1: When he was a student he wrote poetry in Latin and in 1629 he wrote his first masterpiece, the Ode on the Morning of Christ’s nativity(a celebration of the coming of Christ and the abandonment of pagan Gods.
Milton was fascinated by Italian culture. He studied writers like Petrar

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 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

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.
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