Quarta D - Inglese | 2023-2024

 From the Puritan Age to the Augustan Age

HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND

Charles I and the Civil War

 Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth;

The Restoration;

THE AUGUSTAN AGE

LITERARY BACKGROUND

George I and the House of Hanover

PURITAN AND RESTORATION LITERATURE

English poetry in the 17th century

Restoration prose

The new life of Drama

THE AGE OF CLASSICISM

Poetry in the age of Newspapers and Novels

THE AGE OF PROSE

newspapers , novels-

THE RISE OF THE NOVEL

Daniel Defoe life and works-  Robinson Crusoe

                                                - Robinson first day on the Island

Jonathan Swift: Life and works- Gulliver's travels 

                                                 - The Academy of Lagado.

John Milton:  Life and works-

                     - Paradise Lost

Daniel Defoe,: Life and works- Robinson Crusoe     - Robinson's first day on the island"

THE ROMANTIC AGE

Historical and Social Background :

Literary Background :

Poetry: Pre-Romantic Trends

Pre romantic poets

Two generations of Romantic poets

The first generation of Romantic poets: Wordsworth and Coleridge

the second generation of Romantic poets: Byron, Shelley,Keats

ROMANTIC FICTION

The Gothic novel

The novel of manners. Jane Austen

The novel of purpose. Mary Shelley

the Historical novel and Walter Scott

Edmund Burke - "the Sublime"

William Blake-  life and works- Songs of Innocence and Experience-

                                                     - The Lamb

                                                     - The Tyger

William Wordsworth - Life and works -  I Wandered  Lonely as a Cloud

 Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Life and works-  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 

                                                                        - Instead of the Cross the Albatros 

George Gordon Byron - cenni - The Byronic Hero   

Percy Bysshe Sheley  cenni sull'autore 

Jane Austen- Life and works -   Pride and Prejudice 

                                                 - Darcy's Proposal

Mary Shelley  - Life and works-   Frankenstein

Civilization - Training for Successful invalsi  - Reading cmprehention- listening comprehention- Language practice-