Letteratura Inglese

di stanche granate che cadevano lontane indietro.
Il GAS! IL GAS! Svelti ragazzi! - Come in estasi annasparono,
infilandosi appena in tempo i goffi elmetti;
ma ci fu uno che continuava a gridare e a inciampare
dimenandosi come in mezzo alle fiamme o alla calce...
Confusamente, attraverso l'oblò di vetro appannato e la densa luce verd

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
Bla

• Politics: A fervent supporter of the French Revolution later he turned to political and religious convervatorism (disillusioned by the period of terror).
• Love: in France William met Anne Vallon and he fell in love with her. They had a child and he wanted to marry her, but he was constricted by his family to return in England. In 1802 he married

Analysis
In the General Prologue, Chaucer sets up the general structure of the tales and introduces each of the characters who will tell the tales. The characters who tell each of the tales are as important as the characters in the tales that they tell; a significant portion of the action of the Canterbury Tales takes place within the prologues to e

• 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

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

• Health: he suffered from pneumonia which would eventually lead to tuberculosis and to a premature death.
• Love: he had an intense emotional tie with his mother who influenced his love relationship; Jessie Chambers (Miriam in “Sons and Lovers”) encouraged him to write; Frieda von Richthofen (the German lover) they fled to Germany and later married

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

• Prison→ He was put in prison where he had known the condition of the prisoners and he fascinated by these persons.
• Love→ In 1836 he married Catherine Hogarth but the marriage wasn’t happy and they separated in 1856. He fell in love with a girl of 18 years old Ellen Ternan and this relationship caused to Dickens a sort of depression because he wa

lei, tutta la bellezza di figlia delle fate aveva,
capelli assai lunghi, e leggeri i suoi piedi,
e selvaggi i suoi occhi.
 
Io feci una ghirlanda pel suo capo,
e pur bracciali, e odorosa cintura;
lei mi guardò com' avria fatto amore,
dolcemente gemette.
 
Io mi stetti con lei, sul mio cavallo
al passo, e