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7.4.4 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)..............................................................478
7.4.5 Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)............................................................481
7.4.6 English Poetry of the 1930s .......................................................................484
7.4.7 English Poetry of the 1940s .......................................................................486
Chapter 8
The Present Age
8.1 The Second Half of the 20th Century (1945-today) ............................................488
8.1.1 Historical and Social Background.............................................................488
8.1.2 Cultural and Literary Background............................................................493
8.2 Post-war poetry ......................................................................................................495
8.2.1 The Movement ...........................................................................................495
8.2.2 The Group ..................................................................................................496
8.2.3 The Liverpool poets...................................................................................496
8.2.4 The Ulster poets.........................................................................................497
8.3 Modern and Contemporary Drama ......................................................................499
8.3.1 John Osborne (1929-1994)........................................................................499
8.3.2 Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)......................................................................501
8.3.3 Harold Pinter (1930-2008) ........................................................................504
8.3.4 Tom Stoppard (1937) ................................................................................505
8.4 20th Century Novel ................................................................................................507
8.4.1 The Second Post-war Period Novelists......................................................507
8.4.2 Post-modern Novelists................................................................................508
8.4.3 Contemporary Novelists ............................................................................509
8.4.4 A zoom in Postcolonial literature..............................................................510
8.4.5 A snapshot on two Indo-English writers ...................................................514
Parte Quarta
Grammatica
Capitolo 1
Il verbo
1.1 Il presente del verbo essere (
to be
) ........................................................................521
1.1.1 Forme del verbo .........................................................................................521
1.1.2 There is/there are......................................................................................523
1.2 Il presente del verbo avere (
to have
) .....................................................................524
1.2.1 Altri usi di
have.....................................................................................
527
1.3 Il
simple present
.................................................................................................
527
1.4 Il
present continuous ..........................................................................................
529
1.5 Il passato del verbo essere (
to be
)...........................................................................531
1.5.1 There was/there were................................................................................532
1.6 Il passato del verbo avere (
to have
)........................................................................533
1.7 Il
simple past .....................................................................................................
536
1.7.1 Verbi regolari..............................................................................................536
1.7.2 Verbi irregolari ...........................................................................................536
1.8
Il
past continuous ..............................................................................................
538
1.9 Il present perfect ...................................................................................................539