自考英美文学选读_The Neoclassical Period.pptVIP

The Neoclassical Period What we now call the neoclassical period is the one in English literature between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of Romanticism which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1978. The background of neoclassical period Political: The English society of the neoclassical period was a turbulent one .Of the great political and social events there were the Restoration of King Charles|| in 1660, the Glorious Revolution in which King James|| was replaced by his daughter Mary and her