This presentation is a part of my academic presentation of The Noe-classical Literature Department of M.A. English M.k.Bhavnagar university and it is submitted to Pro. Dr. Dilip Barad.

1. An overview of Neo-classical age
 Name: Raval Mital M.
 Roll no: 26
 Year: 2016 2018
 M.A.Sem: 1
 Enrolment no: 2069108429170026
 Paper no: (2) The Neo-classical Literature
 Presentation topic: An overview of Neo-classical age
 Submited to: Parth Bhatt
Smt.S.B. Gardi
Department of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University

2. Introduction
 The age is known as classical age or
age of reason.
 Neoclassical literature is
characterized by order, accuracy and
structure.
 It is a period of Enlightenment.
 Literature of the age is concerned
with human nature, supremacy of
reason.
 Unity in the works of all writers.
 The age wished to understand not to
imagine.

3. Definition of Neo-classical age
 The 18th century in English literature has been called the
neo-classical age, Augustan age and the age of reason.
 The term “the Augustan age” comes from the self
conscious imitation of the original Augustan writers,
Virgil and Horace by many of the writers of the period.
 Specifically, the Neo-classical age was the period after the
pest oration era of the death of Alexander Pope.
 The major writer of the age were Pope and Johnson,
Dryden in poetry and Jonathan swift and Joseph Addition
in prose.
 Neo-classical period ended in 1798 when Wordsworth
published the Romantic ‘Lyrical Ballads”.

4. Characteristics of Neoclassical
Literature
 Neo-classical literature is characterized by order,
accuracy, and structure.
 In direct opposition to Renaissance attitudes, where
man was see as basically good, the Neo-classical
writers portrayed man as inherently flawed.
 They emphasized restraint, self control and common
sense.
 This was a time when conservatism flourished in both
politics and literature.

5. Some popular types of literature in
Neo-classical age
Parody
Essays
Letters Fables
Satire
Melodrama

6. Three stages
 Neo-classical period of literature can divided into
three part.
The Restoration period
The Augustan period
The age of Johnson

7.  The Restoration of king Charles II
to the English throne in 1660 after
a long period of puritan
domination in England brought a
new change in English literature.
Previously closed theaters were
opened again. New group of
writers began to write plays.
 Restoration literature continued
to appeal to heroic ideals of love
and honor, particularly on stage,
in heroic tragedy.
The Restoration period (1660-1700)

8. Famous writer
 John Dryden
 John Milton
 Sir William Temple
 John Locke
 Samuel Pepys
 Jean Racine
 Jean Baptiste

9. The Augustan period (1700-1750)
 It is called Augustan because
people was think like Augusts
Caesar.
 This period is marked by the
imitation of Virgil and Horace’s
literature in English letters.

10. Famous writer
 Alexander pope
 Jonathan swift
 Joseph Addison
 Francis Marie

11. The Age of Johnson (1750-90)
 This period marks the transition
toward the upcoming Romanticism
through the period is still largely
Neo-classical.
 Much was happening around the
world politically, such as both the
American and French Revolutions.
 This time marked a transition in
English literature from the structure
and formality of the Neo-classical
writers to the emotional, ungoverned
writings of the Romantics.

12. Famous writer
 Samuel Johnson
 Edward Gibbon
 George Crabbe
 Robert Burns
 William Cowper
 Thomas Paine
 Thomas Jefferson
 Benjamin Franklin

13. Conclusion
 The neo-classical era in literature br0ught a sense of
decorum and stability to writes
 There were rules to be carefully followed and there
was structure to be uphold.