THE EARLY ROMANTIC AGE

Poetry:

W.Blake: Infant Joy, Infant Sorrow, London, The Lamb,  The Tyger.

Prose: The Gothic Novel

M.Shelley: from Frankestein: The Creation of the Monster.

THE ROMANTIC  AGE

Historical and Social Background

Literary Production: The Romantic Literary Movement.

W. Wordsworth: life and themes

             From the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads: “A Certain Colouring of  Imagination”

             Daffodils, The Solitary Reaper, Tintern Abbey, My Heart Leaps Up.

S.Coleridge: life and themes

             From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Death and Life in Death

             A Sadder and a Wiser Man.

P. B. Shelley: life and themes

              To a Skylark

G.Byron: life and themes

              The Byronic Hero: XVII

G. Keats: life and themes

               Ode on a Grecian Urn.  La Belle Dame sans Merci.

THE VICTORIAN  AGE

Historical Background.

The Victorian Compromise. The Victorian Frame of Mind. Aestheticism and Decadence.

Prose:  

C. Dickens: life and themes

                 From Oliver Twist: Jacob’s Island, Oliver wants  more .

                 From Hard Times: Nothing but Facts, Coketown.

R.L. Stevenson: life and themes

            From: The Strange Case of Dir. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:  Jekyll’s Experiment

O. Wilde: life and themes

            From: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The  Preface; Dorian’s Hedonism; Dorian’s Death.

Drama:

O. Wilde: from  The Importance of Being Earnest: the Vital Importance of Being  Earnest.

G.B. Shaw: life and themes

THE XX CENTURY – THE MODERN  AGE

Historical Background

The Age of Anxiety – The Interior Monologue

D.H. Lawrence: life and themes

            From: Lady Chatterley’s Lover “Tevershall”

E.M. Forster: Life and themes

            From: A Passage to India : “The Secret Understanding of the Heart (Lines 1/40)

H. James. life and themes

            From: The Turn of  The Screw: You Devil

J. Joyce: life and themes

            From: Dubliners: The Sisters. Eveline.

            From: The Dear: She Was Fast Asleep., I Think He died for me .

            From: Ulysses: Molly’s Monologue.

V. Woolf: life and themes

            From: Mrs. Dalloway: “Septimus Death”

G. Orwell: life and themes

            Animal farm

            From: 1984: Big Brother is Watching you.

Poetry:

T.S. Eliot: life and themes

            The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock

            From: The Waste Land : The Burial of the Dead; The Fire Sermon

The Theatre of the Absurd:

S. Beckett: From:  Waiting for Godot: He won’t come this evening

Testo in adozione. “The New Mirror of the Times” di  R. M. Mingazzini /  L. Salmoiraghi

Ed. Principato