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Literary output and reputation He becomes a literary celebrity after the pubblication of "Cristabel and Other Poems" in 1816 and of "Biographia Literaria". Some of his lectures were in great demand, like those on shakespeare(with them C. put the basis for modern Shakesperian studies). C.'s total out put covered a range of fields like philosophy, lite

Literary success He was only twenty-one when his first fictional work, Sketches by Boz (1836), appeared in instalments and had an enthusiastic reception from both critics and pub1ic. The publication of Pickwick Papers (1836~7) increased Dickens' popularity and brought in handsome profits, which enabled him to marry. A frantic career as a novelist d

The role of the artist: HAD LOST HIS COMMANDING ROLE IN ART.THE TASK IS NEITHER TO TEACH NOR TO CONVINCE BUT TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF REALITY THROUGH THEIR OWN SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTIONS. Form: HE ADOPTED DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW, DIFFERENT NARRATIVE TECNIQUES(from third person narrator to the stream of conciousness-interior monologue,narrative where the lack

Themes He was the major figure in 1st generation of English Romantic poets. NATURE: it is the most important subject, the 1st meaning is that of the COUNTRYSIDE as opposite to the town. The landscape is mainly rural; even the urban landscape of london("Composed upon Westminster Bridge")becomes a sort of rural landscape because of the beauty of the mo

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_Could you buy a joint of beef?
_Ok.I’ll go to the butcher’s and buy one.
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_Hello Maicol’s office.
_Helloi.Could I speak to Mr Mercuriali,pleaase?This is Mr York.
_OH,I’m afraid but he’s out at the moment.He’s visiting a building.
_I see.What time will he be back in the office?
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In contrast to the ideal form of 18th-century music, based on a purely musical sequence of exposition, development, and recapitulation, the form of the symphonic poem is derived from the character or "plot" of the extramusical program. Following the example of Berlioz and Liszt, later composers such as Antonín Dvorák, Jean Sibelius, Bedrich Smetana, Ric

GENÈSE DE "L'AVARE"
"L'avare" a une place à part dans la production de Molière. La pièce a été écrite entre un ouvrage de commande, George Dandin, représenté au «diverrtissement royale» du 18 juillet 1668 pour la paix d'Aix-la-Chapelle, et "le Tartuffe" dont la version définitive est enfin autorisée en février. On peut penser que Molière a vu dans l

De cette mentalité est sorte un art cherchant à représenter l' infini, se portant volantiers vers l' inaccessible, le merveilleux, la Raison, la calme, la simplicité et la charté.
Le deuxième sens du mot Romantisme (le sens adopté par l' histoire littéraire) désigne la réaction contre le classicisme faite à la fin du XVIIIe siécle et au début duXIX

Einstein’s “theory of relativity” shook up the science world. The ideas were very complicated.
Adolf Hitler had taken over the government in Germany, Hitler hated Jewish people, and Einstein, a Jew, had a difficult time for several years.
He came to the United States. For the next twenty-two years Einstein worked at the Institute for Advanced st

Cambiamenti di tempo

a) Quando il verbo che introduce il discorso indiretto è al presente, al passato prossimo, al futuro non ci saranno mutamenti di tempo:

Es.: Mary says: “I will return there”.
Mary says she will return there.
Mary has said she will return there.
Mary will say she will return there.

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