POETRY

1 - Neo-classical poetry { there is some kind of addition }
" The Fire of London " by John Dryden.
" Absalom and Achtitophel " by John Dryden.
" The Rape of the lock " by Alexander Pope.
" An Essay on Criticism " by Alexander Pope.
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2 - Pre-romantic poetry
" A country churchyard " by Thomas Gray.
" Ode to Evening " by William Collins.
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3 - Romantic poetry
" Frost at Midnight " by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
" The Prelude Childhood and School-time " by William Wordsworth.
" An Ode to Autumn " by John Keats.
" An Ode to The West Wind " by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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1 ) NEO-CLASSICAL POETRY:
The activity of the life of the upper class (no change in the subject). There’s a kind of change in language: (the heroic couplet). With Dryden and pope each couplet has a complete thought, the following of Nature. {Logic, order, moderation, following of reason.}
Nature = general human nature, classical in the sense. The imagination has not a complete freedom avoiding the emotions that includes in the Romantic poetry. They depend on the part that concerns with mind more than emotion. Dryden talks in favor of English _ Elizabethan poetry taking Shakespeare as an example
The use of Satire in the poems of Dryden and pope. {The rape of the lock} by pope criticized the triviality of the Aristocratic class. He criticized the Baron in his way to get the girl by praying and asking the help of God.
2 ) PRE-ROMANTIC POETRY:
They ‘re still classical in a certain way but there’s some personal tone.

3 ) ROMANTIC POETRY:
A revolution against everything old. William Wordsworth had said once: “ a man is speaking with men”. Nature for those poets is the ocean, trees, and mountains…
They’re concerned with their personal life. The freedom given to the imagination is unlimited.

Part One


" Frost at Midnight " by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Romantic School

Part Two

i1- " Achitophel and Absalom" by John Dryden.

Neo-Classicl School

i2- " An Essay on Criticism " by Alexander Pope.
Neo-Classical School

i3- " Ode to Evening " by William Collins.

Pre-Romantic School

i4-" The Prelude"[ Childhood and School-time ] by William Wordsworth.

Romantic School

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