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 Heinrich Heine „der letzte Waldsänger“ Die schlesischen Weber  Besculdigen+akk= accusare Die Protagonisten dieses Gedichts sind die Weber; sie sind verbittert, sie weben ein Leichentuch fur ein Land conservativ und [...]

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)   He was born at Startford (Essex), the eldest son of nine children. He study to Highgate School and then to Oxford. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1866 and then he entered the Jesuit Orde [...]

ITALIANO REGIONALE TOSCANO E ROMANO. Toscano e romanesco costituiscono caso di italiano regionale precoce. Fino al 15 secolo il dialetto di Roma non era diverso dai dialetti centro meridionali del Lazio e della Campania. Il mutamento linguisti [...]

MAURICE’S BOYHOOD Maurice – Thank you. Prof – Hall, come over here please. Maurice – Sir? Prof – Come on. Have a good send-off? Maurice – Yes sir, thank you sir. Mr Abrahams gave me a picture “The light of the world”, fellows ha [...]

Rupert Brooke 1887 - 1915 Rupert Brooke, born in a high-class family, was educated at Rugby school and then at King’s College, Cambridge. He became Officer in the Royal Navy and then wrote the ‘war sonnets’ that made his fame: The Sold [...]

Geoffrey Chaucer CANTERBURY TALES PLOT: It’s spring and thirty people, including Chaucer himself, all from different social classes, are going on a pilgrimage to Thomas Becket’s shrine. They gather at the Tabard Inn in London.The host [...]

JAMES JOYCE Life: he was born in Dublin in 1882. The writers he admired more were Dante, considered his "spiritual food", D'Annunzio and Ibsen. The interest in Euripean literatures led him to begin to think himself as an European r [...]

I VERBI CON PREPOSIZIONE        an + accusativo                    denken an                    glauben an                           pensare a              credere a        auf + accusativ [...]

Hitler, Adolph 1889-1945, German dictator, founder and leader of NATIONAL SOCIALISM, or Nazism; b. Austria. In World War I he served in the Bavarian army, was gassed and wounded, and received the Iron Cross (first class) for bravery. The wa [...]

MOLIERE ET L'ART DE LA COMEDIE Au XVII siècle, le genre théâtral est très developpé. BUT DE LA LITTEARATURE: analyser l'âme humaine pour mieux se connaître, et par consequent, mieux connaître les autres. On peut eviter les i [...]

John Donne John Donne, una delle più importanti personalità dell'età barocca inglese, nasce a Londra nel 1572. Appartenendo ad una famiglia cattolica, viene educato agli ideali cristiani, in particolar modo dei Gesuiti. [...]

1.INTRODUZIONE  Britannia Termine con il quale era definita la Gran Bretagna prima dell'invasione delle popolazioni germaniche nel V e VI secolo d.C. Furono i romani a chiamare questi territori Britannia.   Fattoria dell’Età del F [...]

FORSTER   He wrote at the beginning of the 20’s, but he is not a modernist. He rejected all human conventions and everything which limited the expression of deep, sincere, human feelings and thoughts; according to him English societ [...]

IL RAPPORTO JOYCE-SVEVO Nella Trieste dei primi anni del novecento si poteva incontrare un singolare insegnante di Inglese presso la Berlitz School : James Joyce. Joyce nasce a Dublino nel 1882 e, pur essendo irlandese, compone le sue op [...]

ROBINSON CRUSOE by Daniel Defoe PLOT: Robinson Crusoe was born in the city of York, where he was educated. His father wanted him to become a lawyer, but his only desire was to go to sea. When he was nineteen he left home without asking permi [...]

MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS -             The word meat indicates the edible muscle of animals, particularly of mammals and birds. There are many species of animals that supply meat for human consumption: cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, buffaloes [...]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 – 1861 Elizabeth Barrett was born near Durham to a wealthy merchant family that had made its fortunes in slave trade. For a girl of her time she was unusually educated, learning Greek and Latin. She was a goo [...]

The Brontë Sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë were the third, fifth and sixth of the six children of an Anglican Priest of Irish descent. The landscape in which the children lived, a small village in the Yorkshire moors, influenced t [...]

JOHN DONNE  (1572 – 1631) John Donne was born in 1572, son of a prosperous London merchant. He lived in an age of transition: new science, religious conflicts. His early education was Catholic and, although he came to reject it (especially [...]

James Joyce (1882-1941) Joyce was an Irishman of a very large middle-class Catholic family, the Jesuits being responsible for his education. Joyce’s schooldays under the Jesuits provide much of the material for the earlier chapters [...]