Neoclassics

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Neoclassics
And Romantics

Neoclassical, also known as, The Age of Reason and The Enlightenment was during
1660-1770. They exhibit strong tradition and ancient values from the classical
writers of Rome and Greece. Who were thought to have achieved excellence in
literary and ideas. Such as form, balance, discipline, restraint, unity, order
and the use of tragedy, satire and epic. In their opinion, literature was a form
of “Art”, therefor must be perfected by long study, practice and attention
to details. The purpose of literature was to instruct the use of reason over
emotion. They prefer society to the individual and public life over private.
There are four major emphases in this age, firstly, emphasis on decorum,
conventions and defined codes of behavior. Secondly, emphasis on moderation, and
thirdly, characters type, humans were primarily subject matter of literature,
therefor poetry was mere imitation of humans life, and finally, neoclassic
poetry emphasizes on general rather than particular. They had rigid class
system, women had no voice and children were unimportant. Believed in divine
order, a rational and moral universe, and in constant human nature, overal...

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