Neoclassical Period (1600-1785)

The neoclassic period is divided into Ages:

1. The restoration period

2. The Augustan Period

3. The Age of Sensibility

The Restoration Period

Restoration comedies developer this time under the talent a playwrights like William Congreve, and John Dryden. Satire became quite popular

The Augustan Period

It was the time of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift Who imitated the first Augustans. Lady Mary Montagu was a poet who was noted for challenging stereotyping female roles.

The Age of Sensibility

It was sometimes referred to as the Age of Johnson. Ideas such as neoclassicism, a critical and literary mode, and the Enlightenment, a particular world view shared by many intellectuals, were victorious during this age.