Wednesday, 14 October 2015

The age of Neo-classical poet

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                 NAME      : DODIYA MEGHANA   J.
                    SEM          : 1
                    ROLL NO: 13
                    SUB            : THE AGE OF NEO-CLASSICAL
                                           POETS
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HISTORY OF NEO-CLASSICAL  AGE :-

        1) The Age of Neo-classical in English Literature.
        2) Neo-classical can be divided into three parts.
        3) Characteristic of the Neo-classical Age.
        4) Poetry
        5) Court poets
       6) Some poets of Neo-classical Age
          -Mathew prior
          -Alexander pope
          -James Thomson
          -Edward young
          -William Collins
          -Thomas Gray
          -Robert Burns
          -John Dryden
         -William Cowper
        -William Black




THE FEATURE OF NEO-CLASSICAL AGE:-
Neo-classical is term used to describe the writing of late 17th to 18th century author like Alexander pope, John Dryden, and others.
The style of writing mention to a “new” form of the “Classics” motivated by form ,function, and theme of originals from Greek and Roman literature.
This style took an attitude toward human nature and ideas, logic, structure of order, and other artistic kingdom which would enable the author to exact copy those originals from Greek and Roman literature.
Neo-classical poet wrote poetry without calling on feelings and imagination to help them create their literary work.
Plato was a significant soure for writers of the neo-classical era.
Poets of the neo-classical era, many who were well-educated made use of scholarly allusions in their work. They often made allusion to the classical writers such as Homer.
Being a realist to a great degree, neo-classical poets endeavored to present what they believed was a true, real picture of the society in which they lived, worked and played. This was in contrast to a romanticized view of society around them.
The Dunciad by Alexander pope is a good example and one of the most popular pieces of poetry from the neo-classical age.

→Court Poets:-
John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester, 1647-1680 poet courtier, libertine, wit-In many of his writing quality of being obscene substitutes for its wit and foulness for licentiousness for love and life constitute perhaps his greatest lyricism. irony against human race his figure containing skill and can specified place able.
Rochester is the demanding court poet, but has left love lyrics of smoothness and songs of contrast between similar things.
Charles Sackville:-(1638-1706)
-He was a poet and courtier, son of the 5th Earl of Dorest and 1st Earl of Middlesex.

→Satiric poets:-
Samuel Butler:
-Hudibras:-

Hudibras is an English mock heroic narrative poem from the 17th century written by Samuel Butler. It is a satirical poem ‘Hudibras’.
He wrote incomplete mock epic poem of more than ten thousand lines, like because interest deride the member by underhand the “humors” of the long faced Hudibras. Escort by his squire Ralpho.
Not the same daring experience involved in a something plot hard to follow through the complex dialogue and valid suggestion but the anti-puritan picture of the poem are value contract surface portraiture broadly comic current mock-solemn parade of knowledge.

→Some poets of Neo-classical Age:-

-e’mathew Prior :-( 1664-1721)
He wrote his 1st book (made debug) “Panther” in collaboration with Charles Montague.
He used his verse to comment on the event politics.
In “Alma’’ or the progress of the mind’’he reprehends worldly vanities even verging on the grotesque.
His verse society shows a light touch and a pleasing turn of exposition.
His poem ‘Henry’ and ‘Emma’ serves as a text for a study of the blunders of Neo-classical.

→Alexander pope:- (1688-1744)
He wrote one of the famous satirical Epic poem. He was a famous Essayist, critical and also a poet.
His work ‘The Rape of the lock’ (1714), a mock-heroic poem ridiculing the fashionable world of his day; contributions to the Guardian; and “Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate Lady” and “Eloise to Abelard.” the only pieces he ever wrote dealing with love.
Pannell, Tickell and Philips can be considered minor poets with one or two noteworthy verses.
His essays are also written in verse form and are as beautiful as his poems. Her poetry basically falls into three periods. The 1st includes the early long poetry.
-The pastorals (1709)
-Windsor forest (1713)
-The Essay on criticism.
A written in heroic couplet’s outlining critical tastes and standards.
Pope’s Essay is regarded, in poets as true genius is but prominent, true taste as a occasionally is the critic’s share.

→James Thomson-(1700-1748)
He was a Scottish poet and playwright, known for his masterpiece The seasons and the lyrics of “Rule, Britannia!”.
He was born in the pastoral village of Edman in Roxburghshire in September 1700.and the age of fifteen to Edinburgh university with the age of becoming a minister like his father..
His celebrated descriptive poem in four parts, ‘The season’ written in blank verse.
He is a habitual writer of verse.
As a writer he signalized the departure from the town to the country, chose the senseriasm stanza and blank verse as his medium and eschewed the stopped couplet that was ubiquitous in the realm of poetry at the time.
He wrote some noticeable work of arts,
-“winter”
-“spring”
-“summer” and
-“autumn” (The season) and in “The castle of the Indolence”.
His long poem a “Liberty”.
“The season” is a abnormally poetry of the nature. Castle of Indolence” is a half farcical description of the retreat at Richmond where he lived with some of his friends in indolence to lovely and close to him.
Liberty is a very good example of Blank-verse. This poem expresses Thomson attitude as a patriotic Whig.

→Edward young:-
Edward young was born June 1681, in the village of up ham, Hampshire.
He wrote a poem “Nine Thought” the complaint or, Night –Thoughts on life, Death and immortality.
This poem is published in nine parts between 1742 and 1745.The poem is written in blank verse dramatic monologue of nearly 10,000 lines. It was enormously popular. Night thought a long didactic poem on death.
The poem was inspired by the successive  death of his stepdaughter, in 1736; her husband ,in 1740;and young’s wife, in 1741.

The nine poems are:-
life, Death, and immortality
Time, Death and friendship
Narcissa
The Christian Triumph
The Relapse
The Infidel Reclaimed
The Nature, Proof, and Importance of the world Answers.
The consolation

 →William Collins:-
The English poet William Collins (1721-1759) excelled in the descriptive or allegorical ode. He also wrote classical odes and elegies and lyrics marked by dedicate and pensive melody.
Her poems :
In the downhill of life
the passions
ode to evening

Collin’s ode on passions; a wonderful example of allegorical form of poetry.
‘Ode to evening ‘is his masterpiece that creates all amazing and unbelievable picture at the evening.

Thomas Gray :
English poet whose “An elegy written is a country church yard” is one of the best known of English lyric poems.
Although his literary output was slight, he was the dominant poetic figure is the mid- 18th century and a precursor at the Romantic Movement.
Gray had begun to write English poems, among which Rome of the best were “ode on the spring.”
Thomas Gray was most famous of author.
This two famous Pindaric odes “the progress of poetry” and “the bard”. Gray seems to visualize the arrangement at the romantic poets. Some readers in Gray’s time found the odes illegible, but they are not so by modern standards.
Gray’s “letter”, published in 1775 “Journal “model of natural Depiction.
Gray’s poems divide into three periods –Gray’s liberty from the classic rules which had so long governed English literature.
- The best we his “hymn to adversity” and the odes “To spring” and on a distant prospect Eton college.

- Norse Poems:
“The fatal sister” and familiar with all the intellectual interest of his age.
Gray’s work has much of the absolute and polish of the classical school, but he shares also the reawaked interest in nature, in common man, and is primitive culture.
His work is by and large romantic and both in style and is spirit.
Robert Burns : [1759-1796]
Robert burns was born 25 Jan, 1759, Alloway,Ayrsbire, Scotland.
He was a poet, lyricist, farmer and Excise man.
He is the best known at the poets who have written in the Scots language.
He also written is English language and is these writings his political or civil commentary is other at its bluest.
His father was an excellent type at scotch peasant of those days poor, honest, god-fearing man.

poems :
Tam o’ shauter (1791)
to a mouse
A red, red rose
to a louse
sweet atton
To a mountain dairy
Her Books :
The poetical works of Robert burns
Kilmarnock volume (1786)
“Cotter’s Saturday night and the rant and riot of the jolly beggars”.
Her poem :
 To a louse :
“To a louse, on seeing one on a lady’s bonnet at church” is a Scott language Poems. This poem is probably written in 1785. This is one of the most remarkable of burns poems.
 The poem opening with its exclamatory suddenness carries us right into the situations:

Ha! where ye gaun, ye crawling ferlie!
Your impudence protects you sairly;
I canana say but ye strunt rarely,
owre gauze and lace;
Tho’s, faith! I fear ye dine but sparely
On sic a place.
The poem is animate with bright descriptive touches and an all-embracing Humour.

A Red, Red Rose :
“A Red, Red Rose” a poem opens with the speaker comparing his love, published 1794.
O my loves like a Redired rose
That’s newly spring in June
O my love’s like the mlodie
that’s sweetly Play’d in tune.
The lyric at rang are simple effective. 1st two ling describe the love is both fresh and long lastic.

her Notable work :
“ Auld long Syne”
“A man’s a man for a that”
“Ae fond kiss”
“the battle of sherramuir”
“Halloween”
John Dryden : (1631-1700)
John Dryden was an English poet, literary, critic, translator, and playwright who was made poet laureate in 1668.
Dryden was the central literary figure in the English restoration period.
her  play : heroic play :
All for love (1667)- greatest tragicomedy
the conquest of Granada
marriage a la mode
the wild gallant
The Indian Emperour.

His works are, “Absalon and Achitophel”.
   “ode to st. cecillia’s day”
“Alexander’s feast” (1647)
“Annus mirabills (1667)
Annus mirabilis was his 1st poem
He also wrote the critical essay on dramatic poesy. Its prose work.
As a playwright, Dryden published the wild gallant In 1663.
Her other work at retire and he received significant praise, include Absalom and achitophel (1681) and the medal (1682).
Dryden wrote of dramatick poesie (1668).
Dryden died on 1 may, 1700 and was initially in st. Anne’s cemetery.
William Cowper : (1731)
William Cowper was born on 26, Nov, 1731, in berkhamsted, hertfordshire, England.
He was the foremost poet of the generation between Alexander pope and William Wordsworth.

William Cowper’s  books :
the task
the diverting history of john Gilpin
William Blanks : (1757-1827)
He was born 28 Nov, 1757, soho London, Great Britain.
He was an English poet, painter and printmaker.
He is considered a seminal figure in history of the poetry and visual arts of the romantic age.
Although blank was examined mad by instant for idiosyncratic views.
His painting and poetry have been characterized as part of the Romantic Movement.
her notable works :
song of innocence and of experience,
the marriage of heaven and hell,
The four 20 as, Jerusalem, Milton, and did those feel in ancient time.
The poetical skehetcher contain of 19 lyrical poems in all. The Nineteen poems together is called.

miscellaneous poems :
His song of clear conscience and of expertise is all allegorize collection of poems. This poem was originally a complete work first printed in 1789 it is abstraction collection of 19 poems interwoven in a same work of art.
Blank’s “the French revolution (1791) has a acceptable connotation.
In this poem Blake describes the problems of the French monarchy.
He also wrote a poem called “Milten”.
This poem is written in 1804 and 1810.
This poems concept is much impressive
And Innovative. Milton returns from heaven and unities with black to analyze the relationship between living writers and their prototype and to undergo a imaginary journey to right his own spiritual errors.

 Conclusion :-
            In conclusion the neo-classical poets of eighteenth century made poetry more social than personal more intellectual than emotional and imaginative, more rule-based than Spontaneous, more formal than familiar, elegant but not simple and frank, generalized but not personalized. Then in their poetry, they described only the superficial things of life and didn’t touch its deeper issues. Poetry was used as a vehicle for instruction rather than for pleasure.

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