letteratura inglese - preromantic period

letteratura inglese - preromantic period

Historical background and literary Features of the period

poetry

Thomas Gray (1716-1771) - Roberti Burns (1759 - 1796 ) - William Blake (1757 - 1827) - William Cowper ( 1731 - 1800) - Edward Young ( 1683 -1765) - Williams Collins (1721 - 1759) - James Thomson (1700- 1748)  - James  Macpherson (1736 - 1796) - Thomas  Chatterton ( 1752 - 1770)

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

the Development of Novel Writing

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) - Henry  Fielding (1707-1754)  - Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) - Tobias Smollet (1721-1771)
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) - Fanny Burney (1752-1840)

The Gothic Novel

Horace Walpole (1717-1797) and Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)

Prose

James Boswell (1740- 1795)  - Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) - Edmund Burke (1729-1797) - William Godwin (1756-1836)

Drama

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

American Literature of the Period 

Italian Literature of the Period