Biography William Wordsworth

Frédéric. Histoire de la littérature anglaise. Paris : PUF, 2004. The Norton Anthology of British Literature : accessible à partir du site de la Bibliothèque universitaire : base de données LION, Literature Online Travaux dirigés (TD) : Shakespeare, William. Othello. Londres : Arden Shakespeare, 2001. Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s travels. Books 1 and 2. Londres: Oxford World’s Classics, 2005. Poésie romantique. Un recueil de poèmes sera distribué en cours. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Oxford

reclamation, the history of the River Ouse, and the nature of phlegm. At once a philosophical meditation on the meaning of history and a gothic family saga, Waterland is a tightly interwoven novel that entertains as it provokes. {draw:rect} Author Biography Graham (Colin) Swift was born May 4, 1949, in London, England, the son of Allan Stanley and Sheila Irene (Bourne) Swift. His father was a civil servant. Swift attended Dulwich College, in South London, from 1960 to 1967. He earned a bachelor of

as rector of a simple country church. Her novels are often considered to focus only on the lives of a few individuals in a few families living, for the most part, in rather confined and conservative country towns. The first published full-length biography of Jane Austen contributed greatly to the establishment of this view of her life and her novels. Her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh published A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1870 (with a second, enlarged edition appearing in 1871). "Of events," her

cromwellienne : il faut attendre l'Acte d'union de 1707 pour voir naître un véritable royaume de Grande-Bretagne. Celui-ci ne constitue pas l'ensemble du « Royaume-Uni », dont la naissance définitive, en 1801, résulte du véritable coup de force légal de William Pitt, imposant au Parlement irlandais d'unir l'île d'Érin et la Grande-Bretagne : mariage forcé, constamment remis en question par la suite, modifié en 1921-1922 par la « partition » de l'Irlande, dont six comtés seulement, l'« Ulster », demeurent

Wordsworth’s ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud . . .’, is also fictional; it refers to the speaker of the poem, who may be quite different from the empirical individual, William Wordsworth, who wrote the poem. (There may well be strong connections between what happens to the speaker or narrator of the poem and what happened to Wordsworth at some moment in his life. But a poem written by an old man may have a young speaker and vice versa. And, notoriously, the narrators of novels, the characters who say

use, and atrophy or waste away with disuse,” he said. “It may be therefore that every action leaves some permanent print upon the nervous tissue.”5 Y oung was not the first to propose such an idea. Seventy years earlier, the American psychologist William James had expressed a similar intuition about the brain’s adaptability. The “nervous tissue,” he wrote in his landmark Principles of Psychology, “seems endowed with a very extraordinary degree of plasticity.” As with any other physical compound

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Titre de l’édition originale STEVE JOBS : A BIOGRAPHY publiée par Simon & Schuster, Inc. Maquette de couverture : Bleu T Photo de couverture : Albert Watson © 2011 by Walter Isaacson Tous droits réservés. © 2011, éditions Jean-Claude Lattès pour la traduction française. Première édition novembre 2011. ISBN : 978-2-7096-3882-1 « Seuls ceux qui sont assez fous pour penser qu’ils peuvent changer le monde y parviennent. » Publicité Apple « Think Different », 1997 Table des matières Les personnages