ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The neoclassical school of poetry was divided into three periods: John Milton and John Dryden wrote during the Restoration Age, Alexander Pope wrote during the Augustan Age, and Oliver Goldsmith wrote during the Age of Transition.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pope and Dryden were the leading writers, who deviated from the traditional schools of poetry and sought guidance in the works of ancient Greek and Roman writers. They tried to follow the writers of the antiquity in letter and spirit in the Augustan Age.

Detailed explanation-3: -Writers and craftsmen including Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Jonathan Swift and Josiah Wedgwood found inspiration in the classical period. Andrew Macdonald-Brown explores how their works adopted the style, genres, aesthetic values and subjects of Greek and Roman writers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Neoclassical Poetry is a type of poetry, which follows the pattern of. poetry authored by the poets of ancient time i.e., Greek and Rome. Pope and Dryden were the leading writers, who deviated from the. traditional schools of poetry and sought guidance in the works of. ancient Greek and Roman writers.

Detailed explanation-5: -The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform; Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.