Lingue

In 409 A.D. Emperor Honorius (with his soldiers and some Germanic tribes) invaded the island, destroying the Roman British towns. Germanic tribes: Angles, Saxons and the Jutes. Most Anglo-Saxon invaders were farmers looking for richer lands. They were organised in family groups. They exalted physical courage and personal freedom, but also beauty. In fa

He collected a lot of poems in Lyrical Ballads (1789), added of a Preface on 1800 that was the manifesto of Romantic movement in Britain. In the Preface he explains his ideas about poetry.
The main setting and inspiration of his poems was nature.
He makes children and childhood the subjects of his poems ( they were closer to nature than men).~~~

As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight!
That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Where all of them lock’d up in coffin’s of black.

And by came an Angel who had a bright key,
And he open’d the cpffins and set them all free;
The down a green plain leaping, laughing, they run,
And wash in a river, and shine in

He went to Denver and San Francisco to meet Cassady and to stimulate the crossing of the United States that then would have inspired the adventures of Jack Kerouac in "On the road".
Reading William Blake in an apartment of Harlem in a summer day in 1948, Allen Ginsberg had an awful and crazy vision in which Blake appeared to him. This was the grea

Atlas was punished for his participation in the revolt of the Titans (which were underground, volcanic forces) against Zeus god of the sky, and as punishment sent to the far West where he was to hold apart heaven and earth. Mount Atlas , reaching up into the sky, was the later geographic reification of this story. The interesting thing is that the same

Mary I succeeded Edward and married Philip of Spain. Under her reign, Protestants were persecuted, and the Queen earned the title of Bloody Mary. In 1558, when shi died, Elizabeth became Queen.

THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH I
Elizabeth I was reddish – gold haired and was attractive rather than beautiful. She had a strong personality, a lively inte

The setting is a large one, often national as in “Beowulf”.
The time is usually a distant past which is often described as a golden or at least heroic age.
The style is elevated.

THE BALLAD

The traditional ballad is an anonymous poem dating back to the late Middle Ages originally intended for singing and dancing. Ballads were p

CHARACTERS
Hamlet is a person of high rank, a noble man; in fact he is a prince, son of the king of Denmark. The latter is dead and his brother Claudius wants to marry the King’s wife, Gertrude, in order to become king. Hamlet sees his father’s ghost that tells him that Claudius has killed him with a poison and that wants him to revenge his dea

Evil is a sort of supernatural power, force.
ACT II - SCENE II
Duncan, king of Scotland, arrives to Macbeth’s castle and spends the night there. Now Lady Macbeth has the perfect opportunity to kill Duncan and she persuades her husband to commit the murder. She had drugged two guard at the king’s bedroom: she has put in their drinks a lot of pois

Meanwhile England was transformed by the Industrial Revolution, which caused several social unrests. It determined class conflicts between employers and workers like in the case of Luddite Riots (1811-12) when textile workers in the North of England destroyed the new mills and machinery which had substitute them in the work.
In this period British R