Neoclassical age (1660-1785):
The neoclassical period was an institution of poets where the lights of knowledge acquisition with discipline and respect was given an overwhelming importance. This period marked an influx of theatre. This was also marked age of reasons or good sense. This was the 18th century literature.
Style/genres:
- satire, Poetry, essays, letters, diaries, biographies, novels
Contents:
Since this was the age of enlightenment, the literary content had emphasis on reasons and logic.
- Stability , wisdom, conventions, tradition
- Emphasis on individual
- Nature as background of Poetry
- Belief that man is basically evil
- Approach to life ‘the world is as it should be’
- Also known as Augustan period because English life and literature has reached an eliminating period of civilization and elegance corresponding to that which existed at Rome under the emperor Augustin.
Key authors of this period:
- Alexander Pope
- Daniel Defoe
- Jonathan Swift
- Samuel Johnson
- John Bunyan
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