Neoclassicism.pptVIP

Neoclassicism * Royal Observatory at Greenwich (1675) Sir Christopher Wren the Neoclassical period covers 1660-1785 - it contain a number of sub-periods: - The Restoration (1660-1700) - The Augustan Age (the Age of Pope) (1700-1745) - The Age of Sensibility (the Age of Johnson) (1745-1785) literary periods are convenient for the sake of scholarship – they are not hard and fast rules Some important writers: John Dryden Alexander Pope Joseph Addison Jonathan Swift Samuel Johnson Edmund Burke Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Neoclassicism Neoclassicism –the period is bounded