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Oscar Wilde Life Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854, and he was son of Sir William Wilde, a well-known surgeon, and Jane Elgee, a fervent nationalist who, to compensate her frustrated expectations of a daughters, dressed little Oscar wit ...

Oscar Wilde Ah! Don't say that you agree with me. When People agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them quite so much. A man cannot be too careful in th ...

OSCAR WILDE (1854 - 1900) Was born in Dublin in 1845. He was influenced by aestheticism and even more by decadentism. From aestheticism he took the cult of beauty, which must be associated with art. In particular the concept take 'Art ...

OSCAR WILDE The name of Wilde is closely connected with Aestheticism, and even more with Decadentism, although he stood apart from the other 'decadents', since he did not isolate himself from the world, but did his best to be publicly ...

Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 and grew up in an intellectually bustling Irish household. His mother was a poet who wrote under the pen name Speranza and who had a considerable following; his father was a renowned physician with a ...

Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900 Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 and grew up in an intellectually bustling Irish household. His mother was a poet who wrote under the pen name Speranza and who had a considerable following; his father was a renowned phys ...

OSCAR WILDE, JOSEPH CONRAD, JAMES JOICE Vita, caratteristiche stilistiche principali, opere principali OSCAR WILDE: was Irish, he born in 1856 into an upper middle-class family. He attended Portora Royal School, Trinity College an ...

OTHELLO Act. I: - Venice - Othello and Desdemona are married - Intrigue of Iago who pretends great loyalty to Othello but makes a plot to have Cassio,Othellos lieutenant, dismissed. Act. II: - Cyprus - Ca ...

Othello Plot Summary Principal Characters: Othello: the Moor of Venice Desdemona: his wife Iago: Othello's ensign Cassio: Othello's lieutenant Emilia: Iago's wife Iago, an ensign serving under Othello, Moorish commander of ...

PADUA Padua is a very pretty city on the edge of the Euganean Hills, is noted mainly for its university and for its associations with St. Antony. This city was the focal point of literature and culture in the past and nowadays preserves a l ...

PARADISE LOST ~ MILTON'S SUMMARY In 1667 John Milton bestowed (some overtaxed students might say 'inflicted') his great masterpiece, Paradise Lost, upon the world. In 1674 the revised second edition was published, where he divided ...

PASSATO PRESENT PERFECT: -        azione compiuta in un momento non ancora finito; -        azione iniziata nel passato e ancora in corso; - &nb ...

Passivo Il passivo dei verbi in inglese si forma con il corrispondente tempo del verbo to be + past participle. Es.: Tom loves Susa. Susan is loved by Tom. Tom has loved Susan. S ...

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS The ground was wet yesterday morning. It had been raining all night. Quando si usa Il Past Perfect Continuous il corrispondente 'passato' del Present Perfect Continuou ...

Past Tenses Ci sono 6 diversi tempi passati:      SIMPLE PAST ( I lived )      PAST PROGESSIVE ( I was living )      PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE ( I have lived ) &nbs ...

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania is in the north-east of the United States, near the Atlantic Ocean. In the north it borders with the State of New York, in the east with New Jersey and Delaware, in the south with Maryland and West Virginia and ...

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY   LIFE   Shelley was born in Sussex in 1792. As was customary in aristocratic circles, he was sent to Eton College, where he was nicknamed mad Shelley because of his eccentricity and his criticism of s ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley Life and works: Shelly was born in the 1792. He spent his early childhood in the country and he was a very sensitive and imaginative child. He developed interest in scientific experiments and the occult, and was nicknam ...

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ODE TO THE WEST WIND Content Ode to the West Wind was conceived and chiefly written in a wood beside the Arno, near Florence. It is divided into two parts; the first one, consisting of the first three stanzas, deal ...

Percy Shelley: freedom without institutions 1. Life Percy Shelley was born in the Sussex. At the age of twelve he was sent to Eton, where he spent six unhappy years, often ill-treated by his schoolmates. This ...