A Brief History of an English Literature: An Augustan Age

• Language = English
• ISBN -13 = 978-8194343257
• Paperback = 120 pages
• Publisher = Nitya Publications
• Country of Origin = India

The eighteenth century in English literature has been called the Augustan Age, the Neoclassical 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 Augustan Age was the period after the Restoration era to the death of Alexander Pope (~1690 – 1744). The major writers of the age were Pope and John Dryden in poetry, and Jonathan Swift and Joseph Addison in prose.

I particularly aimed at interpretation of sociopolitical milieu of Augustan Age, of social change, of literary tendencies of the age, and of prose, novel, poetry and drama of the Augustan Age.