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LETTERATURA

Chapter 3 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 of the Monarchy; the Augustan Age (the Hanoverian Dynasty)

LITERARY BACKGROUND

Poetry in the Jacobean and the Puritan Age: the Metaphysical Poets, the Puritan Poets and the Cavalier Poets.

Samuel Pepys: “The Great Fire of London”

Isaac Newton

John Donne: cenni biografici e produzione letteraria. Da "Songs and Sonnets": lettura,

traduzione e commento di "Death Be Not Proud".

John Milton: cenni biografici. "Paradise Lost": trama dell'opera. Lettura, traduzione e

commento del "Satan's Speech";

Poem: “On His Blindness” lettura, traduzione e commento

The Augustan Age: The Age of Prose: newspapers and novels.

The Rise of the Novel

D. Defoe: biografia e opere. Testi tratti da “Robinson Crusoe”

J. Swift: biografia e opere. Testi tratti da “Gulliver’s Travels”

S. Richardson: biografia e opere. Testi tratti da “Pamela”

H. Fielding biografia e opere. Testi tratti da “Tom Jones”

Chapter 4: The Romantic Age

HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND

Britain and the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Industrial and Agricultural revolution, Social reforms

LITERARY BACKGROUND

Poetry: Pre- Romantic Trends and two generation of Romantic Poets

Thinkers: Edmund Burke: con lettura e comment del testo “On The Sublime”, Rousseau, Kant, Schelling

W. Blake: biografia e opere

“The Lamb“ and “The Tyger“ (“Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience“) lettura,

traduzione e commento

Wordsworth: biografia e opera (“The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads“)

“di “I wandered lonely as a Cloud“

Coleridge: biografia e opere

Lettura del testo “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner“ ad analisi e commento dei testi “Instead of the Cross” e “A sadder and wiser man“

P.B.Shelley: biografia e opere

lettura, traduzione e commento di “Ode to the West Wind”

J. Keats: biografia e opere

lettura, traduzione e commento di “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

GRAMMATICA, SINTASSI, LESSICO

Dall’unità 5 alla 10 del libro di testo Performer B2

Grammar: revisione delle unit dalla 1 alla 4 con la correzione degli esercizi dati durante la pausa estiva

All conditional and mixed conditional, gerunds and infinitive, modals verbs of ability, permission, deduction, obligation, necessity, advice; articles; Passive voice, have something done and causative verbs; personal and impersonal passive; relative clauses (defining and non-defining); uses of wish

Vocabulary: travelling, agenda 2030, environmental issues, science and medicine, sports, working world, communication and technology

Writing: essay, article, review

Arricchimento lessico con combination, collocation, phrasal verbs in tutte le unità