Attempt an essay on the chief literary developments during the augustan age
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The eighteenth century in English literature has been called the Augustan Age, the Neoclassical Age, and the Age of Reason. ... Specifically, the Augustan Age was the period after the Restoration era to the death of Alexander Pope (~1690 - 1744).
Augustan Age. The first half of the 18th century, during which English poets such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift emulated Virgil, Ovid, and Horace—the great Latin poets of the reign of the Emperor Augustus (27 BCE to 14 CE).
Goldsmith, in The Bee, in an 'Account of the Augustan Age in England' (1759), identifies it with the reign of Queen Anne, and the era of Congreve, Prior, and Bolingbroke.
The "Augustan" age in English literature refers back to the "Golden Age" in Roman poetry, when, under Emperor Augustus of ancient Rome, Latin poetry totally flourished. ... Because Augustan writers looked to ancient writers as role models, Augustan literature is often called "neo-classical."