LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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the Restoration period
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the Augustan period
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the Age of Johnson
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the Age of science
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Detailed explanation-1: -Regarding English literature, the Neoclassical Age is typically divided into three periods: the Restoration Age (1660-1700), the Augustan Age (1700-1750), and the Age of Johnson (1750-1798).
Detailed explanation-2: -Neoclassical literature was written between 1660 and 1798. This time period is broken down into three parts: the Restoration period, the Augustan period, and the Age of Johnson. Writers of the Neoclassical period tried to imitate the style of the Romans and Greeks.
Detailed explanation-3: -1750 and lasted until c. 1850. Neoclassicism began around the period of the rediscovery of Pompeii and spread all over Europe as a generation of art students returned to their countries from the Grand Tour in Italy with rediscovered Greco-Roman ideals.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Augustan Age. The eighteenth century in English literature has been called the Augustan Age, the Neoclassical Age, and the Age of Reason. The term ‘the Augustan Age’ comes from the self-conscious imitation of the original Augustan writers, Virgil and Horace, by many of the writers of the period.
Detailed explanation-5: -The 18th Century in England is called the Classical Age or the Augustan Age in literature. It is also called the Age of Good Sense or the Age of Reason.