Augustan Age: Poetry and the Enlightenment - Prof. Monterrey Rodríguez, Ejercicios de Idioma Inglés

¡Descarga Augustan Age: Poetry and the Enlightenment - Prof. Monterrey Rodríguez y más Ejercicios en PDF de Idioma Inglés solo en Docsity! Augustan Age: Poetry in the Age of Enlightenment Necoclassical poetry Aristocratic taste, sophistication, elevated tone of restraint and dignity. Rationalism & Skepticism: Preoccupation with the here and now. Critical and analysis spirit. The purpose of literature was to instruct through pleasure , thereby uniting aesthetic and didactic purpose. The greatest virtue in art was a universal significance. Types of poetry • Satire/ Satirical poetry • Mock – Heroic • Odes, epic poems... • Graveyard School • Nature poetry The best examples of Nature Poetry are the descriptions of the Garden of Eden in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Both the Graveyard School and Nature Poetry are rationalism. Mock –Epic –(-Heroic): When the elevated language and elements of the epic are used to narrate an irrelevant story. Culture in 18th Century Britain • Racionalism • Enlightenment • The Club of London • British Museum • Hume, Gibbon, Burke • Picturesque / Sublime • Canada & India Pinturesque: realistic nature to produce feelings, emotions and senses Sublime: introduces by E. Burke, the sublime challenges rationalism, visual experience is contemplate the immensity of nature.