With his identity clouded in mystery, Brian Bilston has amassed over 80,000 Twitter followers and has become known as the unofficial Poet Laureate of the social media platform. Read here.
Thursday, 27 February 2025
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
INSIGHT INTO THE VICTORIAN AGE - 5^C LINGUISTICO
The Victorian period in
Great Britain (1837-1901) was one of political stability, huge
industrial and technological change, major economic development, prosperity,
optimism and faith in progress as well as poverty and social unrest, shocking
divisions between the rich and the poor, and grand attempts to combat squalor
and disease.
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Wednesday, 12 February 2025
W.H. AUDEN - 5^C LINGUISTICO
English poet, playwright, critic, and librettist Wystan Hugh Auden exerted a major influence on the poetry of the 20th century. He grew up in Birmingham, England and was known for his extraordinary intellect and wit. His first book, Poems, was published in 1930 with the help of T.S. Eliot. Just before World War II broke out, he emigrated to the United States where he met the poet Chester Kallman, who became his lifelong lover. W.H. Auden won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for The Age of Anxiety. Much of his poetry is concerned with moral issues and evidences a strong political, social, and psychological context. Read here.
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The Global Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development seek to end poverty and hunger, realise the human rights of all, achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and ensure the lasting protection of the planet and its natural resources. The Global Goals are integrated and indivisible, and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental. Read here.
https://www.eda.admin.ch/agenda2030/en/
https://www.agenda-2030.fr/en/agenda-2030/presentation
Sunday, 2 February 2025
STUDYING VIRGINIA WOOLF - 5^C LINGUISTICO
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist, essayist, biographer, and feminist. She was a prolific writer, whose modernist style changed with each new novel. Her letters and memoirs reveal glimpses of Virginia Woolf at the center of English literary culture during the Bloomsbury era. She represents a historical moment when art was integrated into society, as T.S. Eliot describes in his obituary for Virginia. “Without Virginia Woolf at the center of it, it would have remained formless or marginal … With the death of Virginia Woolf, a whole pattern of culture is broken.” Read here.
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