Svolgi gli esercizi sul quaderno o sulla scheda, rispondendo in inglese. Leggi attentamente ogni consegna: alcuni esercizi richiedono una sola risposta, altri brevi paragrafi argomentati. Cita, quando possibile, i due autori e le loro opere principali.
- In which year was the first edition of the Lyrical Ballads published, marking the conventional beginning of English Romanticism?
- A) 1776
- B) 1789
- C) 1798
- D) 1815
- According to Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, poetry should imitate the artificial and elegant diction typical of 18th-century classical poets.
- Vero / Falso
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Complete the sentence with the correct term: Wordsworth defines poetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ___ in tranquillity.
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Match each concept or work on the left with the author who is most closely associated with it on the right. | Colonna A | Colonna B | |---|---| | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Wordsworth | | Tintern Abbey and the Lake District | Coleridge | | Willing suspension of disbelief | Wordsworth | | The real language of common men | Coleridge |
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Which faculty, according to Coleridge in the Biographia Literaria, allows the poet to dissolve and recreate the world through a conscious creative act?
- A) Primary imagination
- B) Secondary imagination
- C) Fancy as mere memory
- D) Pure reason
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Explain in about five lines why the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution are considered important historical backgrounds for English Romanticism.
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Compare Wordsworth's and Coleridge's contributions to the Lyrical Ballads, focusing on their different choice of subjects, their use of language and the role of nature in their poetry. Refer to at least one specific poem for each author and write a well-organised paragraph of about twelve lines.
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Read the following lines: "Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink." Identify the author and the work, recognise one rhetorical figure used and explain briefly the situation of the speaker.