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neo classical
- written between 1660 and 1798
- used the influence of romans and Greeks
- the era can be broken down in to three sections: the restoration age, the Augustan age and the age of Johnson
- it was the era of the age of enlightenment, which emphasized logic and reason.
- neoclassical dominated the restoration period in 1660 until the end of the 18th century when romanticism started to emerge
the restoration age
key poets: Bunyan, Milton, Dryden.
- French influences peaked
- there was of focus of realism and satire heroic ideas of love.
- Charles II was on the throne, following Cromwell’s rule.
the Augustan age
- key poets: dafore, richardson, fielding
- This era helped to form the golden age, marked by civil peace and prosperity
- Poets during this period created verse inspired by authors like Virgil and Ovid. The Augustan Age was also marked by the evolution of satirical verse, the development of the novel, and the use of melodrama over political satire.
The Age of Johnson
dominated and characterized by Dr Samuel Johnson
doctor Samuel Johnson wrote a dictionary , and helped to make ‘English literature’ as we call it today- he was a lexicographer.
- Shakespearean influences were implemented, such as gothic elements and focus on reason , balance and intellect.
it is also known as the age of sensibility
-religious tendencies like the rise of Methodism and political events eg the American and French revaluation all established a ground for English romanticism .
there was a rejection of the supernatural and it was said by looking a the natural would would be enough to determine if god existed.
characterization of neoclassical literature
characterized by order, accuracy, and structure. neoclassical writers portrayed man as inherently flawed, in comparison to renaissance who portrayed them as inherently good.
restraint ,self control and common sense was emphasized
popular types of literature: parody, essays, satire, letters, fables, melodramas, rhyme with couplets.
contrast between renaissance and neo classical
neoclassical sees:
men as flawed and imperfect, who were inherently sinfully, and whos potential was limited
there was a resistance against, optimistic, enthusiastic renaissance views .
they replaced the renaissance ideas of imagination, invention and experimentation with order and reason, restraint and common sense and on religious , political and economic ideas.
what was the romantic era
Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and writing history in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century.
what are the 5 main characterizations of romanticism
interest in the common man and childhood strong senses, emotions, and feelings awe of nature celebration of the individual importance of imagination
what does romanticism emphasize
Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.
romanticism in literature
The romance was a tale or ballad of chivalric adventure whose emphasis on individual heroism, also the use of tragedy
people in romanticism
Romanticism in English literature began in the 1790s with the publication of the Lyrical Ballads of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
the Victorian literacy period
Victorian literature refers to English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901)
characteristics of victorian
realism in style and subject, strove to reproduce nature as it was, not as it was imagined or idealized.
Victorian literature poets
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Oscar Wilde, Hardy, Rosetti, Lewis carol
