pictures of idle, meaningless life of the lords and ladies in the aristocratic-bourgeois society of 18thcentury England, though the satire is usually rather mild and somewhat diluted with humor. Pope also shows here the inferior position of woman in the aristocratic circles at the time where they were no better than toys and slaves to men’s passion.
His lines are smooth, Balanced and concise, many of them have become household saying:
Neo-classicism
(The Age of Reason)
18th century
Ⅰgeneral introduction Ⅱ Neo-classicism Ⅲ representatives
1.the moderate school 2.the radical school 3. Sentimentalism 4.pre-Romanticism
Ⅱ Neo-classicism
1.definition:a movement from the Restoration till the end of 18th century, which emphasizes on order, reason( not emotion), restraint, common sense, and conservatism (not imagination). The representatives modeled after Greek and Latin authors.