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Culture: 1. Reason rather than superstition dominated. 2. English literature was influenced by French enlighteners and ancient Roman writers. 3. Neo-classicism was the leading literary trend in early 18th century. 2. Neo-classicism: a revival in the 17th and 18th centuries of classical standards of order, balance, and harmony in literature. John Dryden and Alexander Pope were major exponents of the neo-classical school. (2) 1740s-1750s, the realistic novels of Richardson, Fielding and Smollett, of whom the last two made rather fierce attacks on the existing social conditions but still maintained sufficient faith in the eventual triumph of virtue over vice and in the final attainment somehow of social justice. Alexander Pope was the most important English poet in the first half of the 18th century. The Rape of Lock(卷发遇劫记) ——a mock-heroic poem 讽喻式英雄诗， in which he satirized the triviality (轻浮)and silliness of the high society with a delicate wit. (Translation of two epics) Iliad （伊利亚特）and Odyssey（奥德赛） (4) weakness: lack of imagination and lyrical gift. His satire was not always just, often caused by personal grudge. Difference between 17th and 18th Classicism The basic difference between Dryden and the 18th century enlighteners lies in the fact that the former wrote to please the declining aristocracy during the Restoration period while the latter wrote for the rising bourgeoisie to tidy up the capitalist social order. b. They give a true picture of the social life of England in the 18th century. c. In their hands, the English essay completely established itself as a literary genre. Using it as a form of character sketching and story telling, they ushered in the dawn of the modern novel. The Trueborn Englishman——a satire《土生英国人》 Moll Flanders《摩尔·弗兰德斯》。 The Shortest Way with the Dissents《消灭不同教派的捷径》 Work Moll Flanders《摩尔·弗兰德斯》 Robinson Crusoe The novel is based on a real fact. In 1704, Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor, was marooned把...放逐到孤岛 on the isl