Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was one of the great American poets of the 1800’s.
Most critis
rank her with R.W. Emerson, E.A. Poe and W. Whitman as the finest American poest of the century.
She was born in Amherst on the 10 of Decembe [...]
SHAKESPEARE THE DRAMATIST
DATE THE PLAYS
ONLY HALF
OF THEM WERE PRINTED DIURING HIS LIFE TIME , THE OTHERS WERE PRINTED AFTER
BEING PERFORMED SO DAITING THEM ISN’ T EASY.
THE WORKS
SO MUST BE DAITING COMBING 3 KINDS OF EVIDENCE:
[...]
Ode
on a Grecian urn by John Keats
Paraphrase
You, that are pure, quiet and eternal, and that
can express a tale sweetly than our rhymes, what are the images on your
surface? Who are the men? What are they doing? Where are they?
[...]
Sonetto CXXX
The
term sonnet derives from the Italian sonetto, a little sound or song. The
first example we have are by Giacomo da Lentini but the sonnet established its
importance as a poetic form with Petrarch’s Canzoniere.
Sha [...]
MEET THE UK
THE BRITISH ISLES are a group
of islands lying off the north-west coast of Europe.
The main islands are Great Britain
and Ireland; Great Britain is the largest island in Europe.
Ireland lies to the west
of Britain; only a sm [...]
The
Victorian age is considered to have begun in the 1832 with the promulgation of
the First Reform Act, which granted the vote to almost all male members of the
middle classes. It was undoubtedly a period of unprecedented material progress.
[...]
Charles DICKENS
(1812-70)
Life and works
Dickens was born in Portsmouth. He had an unhappy childhood, since his father went to prison for debt and he
had to work in a factory at the age of twelve. These days of sufferings were to
inspire [...]
ARTHUR
CONAN DOYLE
Conan
Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859.He attended the Jesuit college after he
studied medicine. He read a lot of Edgar Allan Poe ‘ s stories and start to
write. In the 1886 he wrote a story with a detective was [...]
[...]
THE TWENTIES AND THE THIRTIES (1918-1939)
The rapid rise of the Labour Party as a consequence of
the war, whose leaders were members of the middle classes, the People Act, were
entitled all men over 21 had the right of vote and at wome [...]
Frasi idiomatiche
Idiomatic phrases
to talk nonsense (dire sciocchezze); to deal cards (distribuire le carte);
to be over (essere finito); to be sorry for (essere spiacente per); to be out of (essere senza);
time is up (è l'ora); [...]
GEORGE
BERNARD SHAW MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION MOTHER AND DAUGTHER
MRS WARREN. You! youve no heart. [She suddenly breaks out
vehemently in her natural tongue--the dialect of a woman of the
people--with all her affectations of maternal authority an [...]
THE
CRISIS OF THE EGO IN THE ENGLISH LITERATURE
We can find the
crisis of the ego also in the Victorian Age. This period runs from the 1837 to
the 1901. In fact, the reign of Queen Victoria
was characterized by appearance and hypocrisy [...]
Augustan
literature
The
seventeenth century was a period of tumultuous change,
witnessing
as it did a revolution, a civil war, major parliamentary
reform and
the emergence of a powerful new middle class. The
extravagance
of the rena [...]
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
Plot:
Dorian Gray is a dandy, a man who should live life in full, completely,
realising his wishes and dreams; one of the feature of a dandy is youth that
represent beauty. Youth and beauty can give happine [...]
THE COMIC – EPIC NOVEL Þ HENRY FIELDING
HENRY FIELDING (1707 – 1754)
Fielding was born into an aristocratic
family in 1707. He was educated fists at Eton and then in Holland. Fielding began his career as a
playwright and then [...]
AGGETTIVI
1. Aggettivi comparativi e superlativi
-
aggiungiamo –er e –est per formare
rispettivamente comparativi e superlativi della gran parte degli aggettivi [...]
NEW TENDS IN POETRY
IN THE
SECOND HALF OF 18TH CENTURY WE HAVE A NEW SENSIBILITY IN POETRY LIKE THE ROMANTIC POETS SO THEESE POETS WERE
CALLED EARLY ROMANTIC POETS.
THE MAIN
FEATURES OF EARLY ROMANTIC POETS ARE:
© &n [...]
“I saw men entrusting
their own conscience
to other men and
thanking them for the
possibility of being able to do [...]
EUROPEAN UNION
HISTORY
European Union was originally an
attempt to promote economic recovery after the Second World War.
In 1950 France
and Germany
agreed the Shuman Plan through which, this two countries, united the reso [...]
