ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The period is called neoclassical because its writers looked back to the ideals and art forms of classical times, emphasizing even more than their Renaissance predecessors the classical ideals of order and rational control.

Detailed explanation-2: -Writers of the Neoclassical period tried to imitate the style of the Romans and Greeks. Thus the combination of the terms ‘neo, ’ which means ‘new, ’ and ‘classical, ’ as in the day of the Roman and Greek classics. This was also the era of The Enlightenment, which emphasized logic and reason.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 18th Century was the age of Neoclassicism, but it was by no means the first time in history that European peoples had become interested in Classical antiquity. Classical revivalism had in fact begun in the Renaissance, some four centuries earlier.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term “Neoclassical” was not invented until the mid-19th century, and at the time the style was described by such terms as “the true style", “reformed” and “revival"; what was regarded as being revived varying considerably.