AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the “founding” of neoclassical poetry?
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William Wordsworth
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Alexander Pope
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Ben Jonson
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George Herbert
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Key poets associated with the school of neoclassical poetry included John Milton, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, and Oliver Goldsmith. Major works included epics and satires, such as Pope’s The Rape of the Lock or Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Detailed explanation-2: -John Donne was born in 1572 in London, England. He is known as the founder of the Metaphysical Poets, a term created by Samuel Johnson, an eighteenth-century English essayist, poet, and philosopher.
Detailed explanation-3: -2. John Dryden, in his Discourse Concerning Satire( 1693), said that John Donne in his poetry affects the metaphysics. It is to say that Donne employs the terminology and abstruse arguments of the medieval scholastic philosophers.
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