The Neoclassical Period (mar 20, 1660 – jan 1, 1785)
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- Authors: John Dryden, Thomas Gray and Robert Burns.- Works: Mac Flecknoe, Essay on criticism, Oliver Goldsmith’s The traveller and the deserted village.
- This period had three parts: the Restoration period, the Augustan period, and the Age of Johnson. Writers of the Neoclassical period tried to imitate the style of the Romans and Greeks
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Date:
mar 20, 1660
jan 1, 1785
~ 124 years