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
