LICEO CLASSICO “AMEDEO DI SAVOIA” – TIVOLI
PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE
ANNO SCOLASTICO 2015/ 2016
Classe IV sez. C
DOCENTE: Prof.sa Luisa GROSSI
Libro di testo “WIDER PERSPECTIVES” II volume.
THE ROMANTIC AGE: historical, social and literary background.
Early Romantic Poetry
T. GRAY’s Elegy written in ….(first two quatrains - text analysis)
Gray and Foscolo
The Romantic poetry
The gothic novel
The novel of manners
The historical novel
W. BLAKE’S life and works
“The Lamb” and “The Tyger”text analysis
“London” text analysis
W. WORDSWORTH’S life and works
LYRICAL BALLADS’ “A colouring of Imagination” (text analysis).
“Composed upon Westminster Bridge”
“Daffodils” (text analysis)
“My hearth leaps up”
“Sonnet composed upon Westminster Bridge”
S.T. COLERIDGE’S life and works
“The rime of the ancient mariner” (text analysis)
Turner and Constable
G.G. BYRON’s life and works
Reading and text analysis of some poems and writings: Italy, Freedom, The Carbonari, Letter to Murray.
P.B. SHELLEY’s life and works
“England 1819” text analysis
J. KEATS’s life and works
“Ode on a Grecian urn” (ending lines)
W. SCOTT and MANZONI
M.SHELLEY’s Frankenstein: “The creation of the monster” text analysis
J. AUSTEN’s life and works
“Pride and prejudice” plot and themes.
E. A. POE’s life and works
“The Black Cat”
THE VICTORIAN AGE: historical, social and literary context.
The Victorian novels
C. DICKENS’s life and works
Oliver Twist’s plot and themes
“One more...” from Oliver Twist (text analysis)
THE BRONTE SISTERS’ life and works
“Wuthering heights”: Heathcliff (text analysis).
T. HARDY’s life and works
R. L. STEVENSON’s life and works
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde’s plot and themes
Reading of the final passage of the novel.
O. WILDE’ s life and works
The Picture of Dorian Gray’s plot and themes
ANIMAL FARM (reading of the first 5 chapters)
SUMMER HOMEWORK: pair work on Decadentism, Shaw, Whitman and other American writers, CLIL issues on the
textbook.
TIVOLI, lì 6 GIUGNO 2016
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LICEO CLASSICO “AMEDEO DI SAVOIA” – TIVOLI