HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

LORD BYRON - 5^C LINGUISTICO

George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron (1728-1844) with his aristocratic behaviour, personal charm and unquestionable beauty stands out as a rock star poet and the prince of passionate people’s perceptions during the so-called Regency era in England (1792 – 1830).  

He is an immense poet, combining the best of Augustan wit and intellect with the best of sensuously and politically charged Romanticism. 
Lord Byron was described in his own time as ‘a child of passion and the fool of fame‘.

George Gordon Byron  -  life and works

 The outstanding Romantic

"She Walks in Beauty"

"She Walks in Beauty"  Presentation

JANE AUSTEN'S 250TH BIRTHDAY

 

Jane Austen, novelist, observer of human nature, and enduring voice of wit, romance, and social insight, was born in Steventon, Hampshire, England on 16 December 1775 and birthday celebrations have been taking place across the United Kingdom and the United States for months.  Here are some ways to celebrate the birth of one of England's most beloved authors.

Why we love Jane Austen more than ever after 250 years

Why I Love Jane Austen (And Why You Should Too)

JANE AUSTEN AND THE NOVEL OF MANNERS - 5^C LINGUISTICO

Jane Austen’s novels are unrivalled for their success in combining two sorts of excellence that all too seldom coexist. Meticulously conscious of her artistry, she is also constantly attentive to the realities of ordinary human existence. From the first, her works unite subtlety and common sense, good humour and acute moral judgment, charm and conciseness, deftly marshalled incidents and carefully rounded characters.

Jane Austen’s critics have spoken of her as a “limited” novelist, one who, writing in an age of great men and important events, portrays small towns and petty concerns, who knows (or reveals) nothing of masculine occupations and ideas, and who reduces the range of feminine thought and deed to matrimonial scheming and social pleasantry. Read here.