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Alexander Pope(1688-1744)“Essay on criticism” Henry Fielding (1707-1754) The Adventures of Tom Jones Enlightenment启蒙运动 To enlighten or educate people out of superstition and ignorance. European intellectual movement of the 18th C.( The age of reason) Reason; Deism自然神论; Social man. Literature—Neoclassical age, Augustan Age Observance of classical rules and regulations Reason, order, decorum, moderation, experience Representatives: Alexander Pope; Samuel Johnson Portraits of Pope Biography of Pope Birth: only child of a linen draper who were persecuted because of his catholic belief. Education: prodigious child; privately tutored, catholic school, self-education; no university allowed. Health: invalid, humpbacked, and permanently stunted by a bone disease in 1705 (1.4 m/4.15 feet). associations: support from Swift, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and many other Tories and prominent Catholics. Writing career Essay on Criticism (1711: outlines contemporary critical tastes and standards) The Rape of the Lock （1714: mock-heroic satire Essay on Man (1732-4: philosophical poem, written in heroic couplets in defense of deism) Translations of Iliad （1715-20: acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal ） Translation of Odyssey (1725) Position and achievements Neo-classical poet. the first author in English history to be able to sustain himself financially entirely on writing. An Essay of Criticism Chief contribution to literary criticism; 744 lines in three parts advocating classicism. his response to a critical debate on the question of whether poetry should be natural or written according to predetermined artificial rules inherited from the classical past. The poem commences with a discussion of the rules of taste which ought to govern poetry, and which enable a critic to make sound critical judgments. He maintains the rules of the ancients are in fact identical with the rules of Nature. He discusses the laws t