augustan age 18th century literature pdf

However, the nature of the Augustan period was not the nature of Wordsworth. In his ideals and concepts of literature, Goldsmith was a staunch supporter of the classical school. The Elegy represents Gray's transitional frame of mind. Eliot r Who is the main object of ridicule in Dryden's Mac Flecknoe? Full blooded tragedies, marked with emotional excitement and fervour could not be produced in the age because of the attitude of reason and rationality towards literary productions.

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