Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man; the last 28 to a woman. The sonnets are almost all constructed from three quatrains, which are four...
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.
❝ Un tempo credevo che le poesie d'amore fossero per gli stolti, eppure ora non faccio altro che sognare, sognare d'amore... ❞ ▬▬▬▬▬ 𝕽𝖆𝖈𝖈𝖔𝖑𝖙𝖆 𝖉𝖎 𝖕𝖔𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖊. : ̗̀➛ Raccolta di poesie di alcuni poeti e poetesse giapponesi che ho trovato in inglese su internet. Essendo io un normalissimo adolescente, e non un...
I dodici sonetti furono composti fra il 1798 e il 1803, e pubblicati fra il 1802 e il 1803. Sono tutti senza titolo, anche perché Foscolo non li considerava composizioni isolate, ma un flusso continuo, una sorta di racconto autobiografico in versi.
"La ginestra o il fiore del deserto", fu composta nel 1836 a Torre del Greco, e pubblicata solo nel 1845, nell'edizione postuma dei Canti. Pur non essendo l'ultimo testo scritto da Leopardi, è considerata il suo testamento poetico, poiché in essa convergono i concetti più alti e profondi del pensiero leopardiano. ...
Il carme "Dei sepolcri" fu pubblicato a Brescia nel 1807; lo spunto per la sua realizzazione fu una discussione avuta con l'amico e poeta Ippolito Pindemonte - a cui poi l'opera sarà dedicata - a proposito dell'editto di Saint-Cloud (1804), tramite il quale Napoleone aveva proibito le sepolture nelle chiese e nelle ar...
〔☁️〕 𝐑accolta di poesie di Giuseppe Ungaretti, pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1919.
〔☁️〕𝐐uesto volume presenta una raccolta di poesie di Costantino Kavafis, poeta sapiente oracolare enigmatico erotico, che descrive nei suoi versi la passione amorosa e la passione civile, la bellezza del corpo e la vivacità della mente. Le voluttà rievocate e celebrate da Kavafis sono quelle erotiche e morali, innes...
〔☁️〕𝐏oem by Edgar Allan Poe. + Italian Translation / Traduzione Italiana.
"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story...
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839. Cover by the lovely @FayLane
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is relayed by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity while simultaneously describing a murder he committed. The victim was an old man with a filmy "vulture-eye", as the narrator calls...
"Dubliners" is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility. As You Like It follows its heroine Rosalind as sh...
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar) is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It is one of several plays written by Shakespeare based on true events from Roman history, which also include Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra. ...
Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, "Hamlet" dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother. Cover by @vkbloodgood
Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603. It is based on the story Un Capitano Moro ("A Moorish Captain") by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565. The story revolves around its two central characters: Othello, a...
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, t...
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.
"The Taming of the Shrew" depicts the courtship of Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship, but Petruchio tempers her with various psychological torments-the "taming"-until she becomes a compliant and obedient...
"Macbeth" tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and parano...
Un esilarante Mark Twain ci trascina davanti allo specchio dei nostri più radicati pregiudizi. NOTA INTRODUTTIVA L'arcangelo Satana ne ha combinata un'altra delle sue e il Creatore lo punisce con un giorno d'esilio, un Giorno Celeste, che egli decide di scontare sulla Terra appena creata. L'esperienza è così stupeface...
Gaio Valerio Catullo sarebbe nato intorno all'87 a.C. a Verona e morì all'età di 30 anni circa. A 20 si trasferì a Roma dove iniziò a scrivere le sue poesie inserendosi nell'ambiente colto di quel periodo. Catullo é l'autore latino più amato tra i ragazzi poiché ha un linguaggio semplice e parla di sé e dei propri sen...
The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naively unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of the...
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
"The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ in order to escape burdensome social obligations.
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes...
