Lingue

Love, which is the basis of all his novels, and which is another romantic content, quite often ends in disillusion and failure, destroyed by institutions like marriage or by society and by Fate. Pessimism: the influence of the latter scientific discoveries and the reading of philosophers such as Darwin and Shopenhauer led him to work out a pessimistic

Hardy’s wish to represent life in some of its most sombre and cruel aspects in contrast with the Victorian’s readers who represented life as they thought it ought to be.
Most of Hardy’s novels are set in the countryside and show his affection for the vanishing agricultural world in the face of increasing urbanization. A deep pessimism characterises

Britain was the first modern country to be seriously concerned with a population explosion, locked as it was on two small island.
This population explosion, serious itself was aggravated by the collection of these names of people in the new urban centers resulting from the factory system. Infact farming was abordared in favour of factory work and ma

Stanzas 22 - 32: the poem ends with the supposed death of the author, his burial in the same churchyard and the epitaph on his tomb.
Comment: the neoclassical idealization of poor country life conceals the denunciation of what poverty means in term of hardship and unfulfilment so that the "rude forefathers" come to be seen in the double role of bot

INGLESE - T. Gray

Elegy begins in a country churchyard, where the author describes what's happening around him.
It's the end of the day, and the ploughman's herd, with their owner, go back to home, while the night is falling, making the author surrounded by darkness. The tomb of the forefathers makes remember to him the hard...

He died in 1771 and was buried in the little country churchyard of Stoke Poges, the village that probably inspired his famous elegy.
WORKS
Gray's was a quite uneventful life of study and writing, and charatarized by a "white melancholy", as he called in a letter.
His literary production was very scanty because he was very slowly to write a p

The influence of German philosophy is reflected in Carlyle’s famous work “Sartor Resartus”, in which in relating the life and the opinions of an eccentric German scholar, who is the author of a book on clothes. Carlyle under the guise of a semiserious debate on clothes, refers to a transcendental philosophy. He maintains that just as the body is the ga

To overcome this melancholia, the Romantic artist seeks to escape. This escape has two aspects: a) In time-The poet retreats into the past which becomes attractive because it is irrevocable and offers a heroism modern life lacks. b) In space-The artist tries to create other worlds where he can realize his own true self. Freedom and Death-The Romantic s

1628 Petition Of Rights William Laud (Archbishop)
• any tax not approved by
Parliament
• no man imprisoned
arbitrarily

PARLIAMENT and KING
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