The Neoclassical

Period

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 Definition
First of all, it is mandatory to know about the etymology of the word Neoclassicism.
The term Neoclassicism is a combination of two words: Neo and Classic. The
word neo has been derived from a Greek word neos, which means young or new,
while the word classic, according to the Webster Dictionary, refers to the style and
works of the ancient authors of Greece and Rome. To combine these words, we get
the meaning of Neoclassicism as the rebirth and restoration of Classicism.
Hence, Neoclassicism is the movement in the history of English literature, which laid
immense emphasis on revival of the classical spirit during the period between 1680
and 1750 in the age of Pope and Dryden.
 History Of Neoclassical
Neoclassical art, also called Neoclassicism and Classicism, a
widespread and influential movement in painting and the other visual arts
 that began in the 1760s, reached its height in the 1780s and ’90s, and
lasted until the 1840s and ’50s. In painting it generally took the form of
an emphasis on austere linear design in the depiction of Classical themes
and subject matter, using archaeologically correct settings and clothing.
Alexander Pope

BORN : 21 MAY 1688

DIED : 30 MAY 1744
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THE RAPE OF THE LOCK

 THE RAPE OF THE LOCK

Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things,
I sing—This verse to Caryl, Muse! is due:
This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to view:
Slight is the subject, but not so the praise,
If she inspire, and he approve my lays.
A well-bred lord t' assault a gentle belle?
O say what stranger cause, yet unexplor'd,
Could make a gentle belle reject a lord?
In tasks so bold, can little men engage,
And in soft bosoms dwells such mighty rage?
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THE DUNCIAD
 THE DUNCIAD

In eldest time, ere mortals writ or read,

THE MIGHTY MOTHER, and her son who brings
Ere Pallas issued from the Thund’rer’s head,
The Smithfield Muses to the ear of Kings,
Dulness o’er all possess’d her ancient righ
I sing. Say you, her instruments the great!
Daughter of Chaos and eternal Night:
Call’d to this work by Dulness, Jove, and Fate;
Fate in their dotage this fair idiot gave,
You by whose care, in vain decried and curst,
Gross as her sire, and as her mother grave;
Still Dunce the second reigns like Dunce the first;
Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind,
Say how the Goddess bade Britannia sleep,
She ruled, in native anarchy, the mind.
And pour’d her Spirit, o’er the land and deep.
John Dryden
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Absalom and Achitophel

 Absalom and Achitophel
To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command,
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin,
Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.
Before polygamy was made a sin;
Michal, of royal blood, the crown did wear;
When man, on many, multipli'd his kind,
A soil ungrateful to the tiller's care:
Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd:
Not so the rest; for several mothers bore
When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd
To god-like David, several sons before.
Promiscuous use of concubine and bride;
But since like slaves his bed they did ascend,
Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart,
No true succession could their seed attend.
His vigorous warmth did variously impart
Of all this numerous progeny was none
So beautiful, so brave, as Absalom:
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Annus Mirabilis
 Annus Mirabilis

For them alone the Heav’ns had kindly heat;

IN 1 thriving Arts long time had Holland grown,
In 2 Eastern Quarries ripening precious Dew:
Crouching at home, and cruel when abroad:
For them the Idumæan Balm did sweat,
Scarce leaving us the means to claim our own;
And in hot Ceilon Spicy Forrests grew.
Our King they courted, and our Merchants aw’d.

The Sun but seem’d the Lab’rer of their Year;

Trade, which like Blood should circularly flow,
Each 3 waxing 4 Moon supplied her watry store,
Stopp’d in their Channels, found its Freedom lost:
To swell those Tides, which from the Line did bear
Thither the Wealth of all the World did go,
Their brim-full Vessels to the Belg’an shore.
And seem’d but Shipwrack’d on so base a Coast.
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