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1) Write a document, create a comparison board that identifies the main characteristics of these Literary movements

LITERARY DEFINITION FEATURES THOUGHT THAT CONCEPTION OF 3 REPRESENTATIVE


MOVEMENTS INFLUENCED THEM MAN. AUTHORS WITH 2 OF
THEIR WORKS.
Neoclassicism was a Western cultural Some of the common The primary Neoclassicist Neoclassicism is a  Alexander Pope
movement in the decorative characteristics seen in all belief was that art should revival of the  An Essay on
and visual arts, literature, Neoclassical art include the express the ideal virtues many styles and Criticism
theatre, music, and following: in life and could improve spirit of classic  Messiah
architecture that drew  symmetry the viewer by imparting a antiquity inspired
inspiration from the art and  unemotional telling of moralizing message. It directly from the  Bankes Homer
culture of classical antiquity. events had the power to civilize, classical period,[4]  The Bankes Homer
Neoclassicism was born in  simplicity of line, form, reform, and transform which coincided  Elephantine
Rome. and color society, as society itself and reflected the
 balance of straight lines was being transformed developments in  John Dryden
and geometric shapes by new approaches to philosophy and  The Wild Gallant,
 use of science, government and the other areas of the a Comedy
mathematics, and natural rising forces of the Age of  The Rival Ladies, a
law Industrial Revolution, Enlightenment, Tragi-Comedy
 non-fantastical view of driven by scientific and was initially a
the surrounding world discovery and invention. reaction against
and events the excesses of
the preceding
Rococo style
Transcendentalis is a form of idealism that  Simplistic Living. The 19th-century Transcendentalist  Margaret Fuller
m encompasses belief in  Self-Reliance. Transcendentalism s are strong  Summer on the
intuitive (nonsensory)  Importance of Nature. movement was inspired believers in the Lakes
knowledge, the indwelling  Spirituality. by German power of the  Woman in the
of divinity in man and transcendentalism, individual. It is Nineteenth
nature, and the consequent Platonism and primarily Century
inalienable worth of man. Neoplatonism, the Indian concerned with
and Chinese scriptures, personal freedom.
and also by the writings Their beliefs are
of such mystics as closely linked with  James Freeman
Emanuel Swedenborg those of the Clarke
and Jakob Böhme Romantics, but  Every-Day Religion
differ by an  Sermons on the
attempt to Lord's Prayer
embrace or, at
least, to not  Henry David
oppose the Thoreau
empiricism of  Aulus Persius
science. Flaccus
 The Service
Naturalism Sometimes defined as the
technique of portraying "a
scientifically accurate,
detached picture of life,
including everything and
selecting nothing." More
commonly, however, it
alludes not to a panoramic
view or even to the detailed
presentation of a narrow
slice of life but to a
particular attitude held by
some writers since the
middle of the nineteenth
century.
Realism. Is the detailed presentation
of appearances, especially
of familiar experiences and
circumstances

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