About neo classical literature
From Elizabethan romanticism, only John Milton survives and he had still to write paradise lost . His great poems reveals no sign of time. The new classical writers were opposed to Elizabethan writers because in the period of restoration, subject and style of literature took new spirit and outlook.
Neo classical writers started imitating style and ideas from classical writers but that romanticism is not there. Authors follow Latin writings for inspiration.
Charles 2 came from France and brought new admiration in literature . Drama was the most copious literary product . French writer , great Moliere deeply influenced the English dramatists. French and classical model have produced heroic couplet .
For example - "Tyrannic Love" by John Dryden ( heroic play )
Elizabethans too copy ancients but bend their works according to their own will. The neo classical writers also used to correct their works. ' correctness' means avoidance of enthusiasm, strict care and accuracy in poetical techniques.
Pop and other successors called Dryden copious but great scholar Dr. Johnson applied epithet ' Augustus ' because according to John Dryden had new tendency very clearly marked. Dryden did to English literature what Augustus did to Rome . He was a great exponent of new ideas.
Hence it is about the writing style of neo classical age . If you want any other information ...pleas comment.
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