Letteratura inglese - principali autori ed opere nella letteratura inglese dal '700 a metà '800

OPERE

ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)

• Pastorals (1709)

• Essay on criticism (1711)

• The Rape of the Lock (1712)

• Poems (1717)

• Eloisa to Abelard (1717)

• Traduzione dell’Iliade (1715-20)

• Coordina la traduzione dell’Odissea (1725-26)

• The Dunciad (1728)

• Moral Essays (1731-35)

• Essay on man (1733-34)

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)

• The Battle of the Books (1704)

• A Tale of a tub (1704)

• Journal to Stella (1766-68)

• Gulliver’s Travels (1726)

• A modest proposal (1729)

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)

• Preface to Shakespeare (1765)

• Lives of the Poets (1779-81) – Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the works of

the English poets

• The Rambler (1750-52)

• The vanity of human wishes (1749)

• Dictionary of the English language (1747-55)

• Rasselas (1759)

• Proposal for printing the dramatic works of Shakespeare (1756)

• JAMES BOSWELL: “Life of Johnson” (1791)

JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719)

• Opera riguardante le vite dei poeti inglesi (1694)

• Traduzione delle Georgiche di Virgilio (1694)

• The Campaign (1705)

• “The Spectator”, fondato con Steele (1711)

• “The Freeholder” (1717-18)

• The Royal Exchange  The Spectator, No. 69, May 19. 1711

SAMUEL RICHARDSON (1689-1761)

• Pamela or virtue rewarded (1740) - L’idea nasce nel 1739, forse dalla lettera 138

• Seconda parte di Pamela (1742)

• Clarissa (1747-48)

• Sir Charles Grandison (1753-54)

DANIEL DEFOE (1660-1731)

• The True – Born Englishman (1701)

• The Shortest Way with the Disstenters (1702)

• The Review (1703-13)

• Robinson Crusoe (1718, ma pubblicato all’inizio del 1719)

• Seconda parte di Robinson Crusoe (1719)

• Moll Flanders[The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders] (1722)

• Lady Roxana or the Fortunate Mistress (1724)

HENRY FIELDING (1707-1754)

• Shamela (1740)

• The Covent-Garden Journal (1752)

• The Champion (1752)

• Joseph Andrews (1742)

• The History of Tom Jones, a foundling (1749)

• Amelia (1751)

ROMANZO DEL ‘700

• Tobias Smollet (1721-71)

- Roderick Random (1748)

- Humphry Clinker (1771)

• Laurence Sterne (1713-68)

- (Life and opinions of) Tristram Shandy (1759-67)

- A sentimental journey through France and Italy (1768)

• Oliver Goldsmith (1730-74)

- The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)

• Fanny Burney (1752-1840)

- Evelina, or the history of a young lady’s entrance into the world (1778)

ROMANZO GOTICO

• Horace Walpole (1717-97)

- The Castle of Otranto (1764)

• William Beckford (1759-1844)

- Vathek (1786)

• Anne Radcliffe (1764-1823)

- The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

- The Italian (1797)

• Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818)

- The Monk (1796)

• Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

- Frankenstein (1818)

• Walter Scott (1771-1832)

- Waverly (1814)

- Ivanhoe (1820)

PREROMANTICISMO

• James Thomson (1700-48)

- The Seasons (1726-30)

• Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)

- The night piece on death (1712-13)

• William Collins (1722-71)

- Ode to Evening (1746)

• Edward Young (1683-1765)

- Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality (1742-45)

• Thomas Gray (1716-71)

- Elegy written in a country churchyard (1751)

• William Cowper (1731-1800)

- The Task (1785)

- The Castaway (1800)

• Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

- Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideals of the Sublime and Beautiful

(1757)

• James Macpherson (1736-96)

- Works of Ossian (1760), con il nome di “Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected

in the Highlands of Scotland”

- Fingal

- Temora

• Thomas Percy (1729-1811)

- Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1760)

• Thomas Chatterton (1753-70)

- Rowley Manuscript

• Robert Burns (1759-96)

- Poems, Chiefly in Scottish Dialect (1786)

ROMANTICISMO

• Oliver Goldsmith

- The Deserted Village (1770)

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

• Poetical Sketches (1783)

• Songs of Innocence (1784-89)  pub. nel 1789

• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)

• Songs of Innocence and Experience – Shewing the Two Contrary States of The

Human Soul - (1790-94)  pub. nel 1794

• Milton (1808)

• Jerusalem (1804-20)  pub. nel 1820

- “The Chimney Sweeper I”  Songs of Innocence

- “The Chimney Sweeper II”  Songs of Experience

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)

• Descriptive Sketches (1793)

• Prelude (1850)

• The Excursion (1814)

• Tintern Abbey (1798)

• I wandered lonely as a cloud (15apr1802)

Wordsworth e Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads

- Prima edizione anonima: 1798 – ne fa parte “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

- Seconda edizione: 1800  contiene la “Preface” di Wordsworth

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)