Inglese

An historical and literary overview of the works of some English war poets: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Rupert Brooke

The life and works of Wordsworth and Coleridge and the Lyrical Ballads: the Preface, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Tintern Abbey

A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist and David Copperfield, plus a short biography of the novelist Charles Dickens

The life and works of English novelist Mary Shelley: from the Gothic Frankenstein to the historical Valperga and the dystopian The Last Man

Style, themes, main works and life of William Blake, with an introduction to the main characteristics of the Early romantic age.

English Romanticism: a cultural movement that detached from the Enlightenment norms, focusing on subjectivism, emotions and nature.