Paper No-2 Reflections of the Nco-classical Age

To evaluate my assignment

   "The Reflection of the Neo-Classical Age"

Name : Riddhi Maru

Semester : 1

Batch : 2016/2018

Submitted To : Department of English

Email id : riddhimaru27@gmail.com

Paper No : 2

Unit : 5.The history of the age / background

            reading.

                 
                  

Q:1......"The Reflection of the Neo-Classical Age"

• Jonathan Swift
   
   

                                         It is considered that Jonathan swift is one of the best seltireist in English literature for Jonathan swift life was all most a living tragedy he had the power of gaining the wealth but he couldn’t because of his scornful nature by hard work he born enormous literary power and used it to saitare over common humanity he had a very dominant personality and as a result the satire colitis of his life was an out came of the personal tragedy that he face primary because of his own nature.

                                     He was born in the city of dabbling in the year 1667 his father met with death he fore he was Bern and his mother was a very poor lady his antayer life especially his early life went in extreme poverty as he had to be depended on his related it was after his graduation that sir William temple give him a position of private secavetary; awift first important work was “the battle off books” it was written but not publish was a stairs on both the party’s in controversy the first touch of bitterness his to be seen bear because in spite of the fact that he was intale qualy superior he had to work under a person who was suffering out of his on superiority over his master.

                                    The second important work written by him was “tale of a tub” which was a staire on various services during that time and it was published along with battle of the books in the year 1704. The work brought him in to notice as the most powerful satirist of the age and he soon gave up his church to enter in to party politics between the years 1710 to 1713 swift was one of the most important feigner of Landon as the wig party was afraid of his state and the story party was afraid of losing his support because of his important he became an arrogant person and almost everybody in the society was afraid of his staire. It was during that time that he wrote “general to Stella”.

                                        His position became critical went e Tories went out of power because he was offered a very good position by then after the party lost he went to Ireland where he wrote his best literary work “Gulliver travels” during the last year of his life be suffered from a bralm basses and he became all most like a and man he dead in the year 1745 and when his will was open it was found that he had lift all his property for saint Petrics asylum for Lumapucis it is still considered as one of the major monuments in order to remember Jonathan.

.......Literary Work by Jonathan Swift :

It is very much evident from swifts life That he was an extant satirist he use to always right against the hypocrisy or injustice that went again the society: Book and plays

1. A tale of a tub-(2006)
2. Gulliver’s travels-(1726)
3. A modest proposal-(1729)
4. Drapier’s letters-(1734)
5. A journal to Stella-(1766)

O....... Daniel Defoe :

 

Much of Defoe’s life is still undetermined. He was born in London became a soldier and then took to journalism. He is one of the earliest and in some ways the greatest of the Grub Streel hacks. He worked for both the Whigs and the Tories by whom he was frequently employed in obscure and questionable work. He died in London.

                   “Daniel Defoe born Daniel foe, was an English

Trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and

Spy most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe.”

    O......Books and Plays :

1. Robinson Crusoe (1719)
2. A journal of the playue year (1722)
3. Moll Flanders (1722)
4. The True-born Englishman (1701)
5. The Storm (1704)

“The best of men cannot suspend their fate

The good die early…And

The bad die late.”

                                 Daniel Defoe died on 24^th April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors. He was interred in Bun hill fields, Borough of Islington, London, where a monument was erected to his memory in 1870.

O.....Joseph Addison :

 

Addison was born in Milton, Wiltshire, but soon after his birth his father Lancelot Addison was appointed dean of Litchfield. He was educated at charterhouse school, where he first met Richard Street. He excelled in classics being specially noted for his Latin verse and became a fellow of Magdalen College in 1693 addressed poem to John Dryden and his first Major work a book of the lives of English poets.

O......Books and Plays :

1. Cato a tragedy
2. Essays of Joseph Addison
3. The vision of Mirzah
4. The Coverlet papers from the ‘spectator’
5. Cat a tragedy in five acts

Joseph Addison was an English Essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was the eldest son of the reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long. Standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded the spectator magazine.

                 On, 6 April 1808, after Addison’s death a town in upstate New York which had been originally organized as Middletown in march 1796 was changed to Addison in honor of Joseph Addison.

O.....Alexander Pope :

 

                                  Alexander pope was born on 21^th may 1688 which was also the year of revolution his parents were roman cathelies and his father was a linebraper between the year 1676 and 1700 he was tutored at home by a priest and then and rolled in two catholic school but he was largely self educated his religious would have made it impossible to purpose a career in lock or medicine because as a catholic he was not permitted to attend a university, precocious child he could read Latin, Greek, French and Italian while steel very young and was already at 16 writing the rather sophisticated verse letter published as this “pastorals” Chan atheistically however he would destroyed a great death of his Javendia the continued existence of which mite had detracted from the image of the poet as child prodigy which he desired, later in life to propagate.

In 1700 the pope family mood to white heel house at been field in wind so forest and there circle 1701 pope, until then of healthy child contract a to tubercular hand bisense attitude at the time to his “perpetual application” to his studies attacks of this daisies would require at interval thought what he would refer to die “this long disease my life”. It left him for ail prone to various other illnesses bump backed the permanently stunted folly grown he would attend a height of only for and a high feet.

1730 saw the publication of popes a poem celebrating the treaty of Utrecht which had been negotiated by the stories “wind so forest” won him a closer5 friendship with swift and in 1740 he published a more complex version of “the rape of the lock” in 1750 pope mat lady Mary Worley montage.

O.....Work of Pope : 

In order to understand his work we have to categories his works in three different groups dialing with the orbey middle and letter period of his life. In the first he wrote his pastoral poetry he also wrote “Easy on criticism” and of Laure, “the rape of the lock” and the second grow he focus upon translation of homoure third part he wrote “the dunciad” and “the epistles” wich had popes view point on and about life.

In so far as easy on criticism which concerned he talks about the art of poetry as it was taught by Horace and the 18^th century classis those written in the formate of heroic complete we hardy conceder this as a poem because of the critical mecums that are used.


                                    The Age of Transition

•  Samuel Johnson :
  
   

Samuel Johnson he was born in lich field in Stafford share 6 England on 18^th September 1709 he come from a very modest back ground and became one of the greatest literary figure of his time he was none for his collection of easy, biographies and comprehensive dictionary during his childhood he suffered from scrofula and as a result his hearing and vision were impaired and throughout his life write childhood he suffered from acute depretion he was never the greatest of his age but he is still remembered today as one of the most striking and original figure in the field of literature according to bozavell he was a very awkward man with vulgar mannerism and appearance he prepped for the university partly in the school but largely in his father shock and when he enter oxford he had red more classical author then all most all the other gragodtes but he had to live the university because of his poverty many of the writers in that time lived on the strits because they did not have many or employment. The works which gave him small success were “ London” and life of the poet savage but that small is success was Janine and as a result the book saler went to him to ask him to write a dictionary of English language which take 8 year of time and in the intervals he wrote.

“Samuel Johnson often referred to as Dr. Johnson

Was an English writer who made lasting contributions

To English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist,

Literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer”

       O.....Books :

1. The works of Samuel Johnson (1710)
2. A dictionary of the English language (1765)
3. Lives of the most eminent English (1779)

• Poem : 1) London 2) The vanity of human wishes
• Play : 1) Irene1

                       Over unit can be said that Johnson would always be remembered for his critical writing and his dictionary in the minds of the readers of literature.

  O.....William Blake :
 
                                  He was the third of seven children two of whom died in intently. Blake’s father Jemes was a hosier. He attended school only long enough to learn reading and writing, leaving at the age of ten and was otherwise educated at home by his mother Catherine Blake.

                                    When William was ten years old his parents knew enough of his headstrong temperament that he was not sent to school but instead enrolled in drawing classes at parse’s drawing school in the strand. He read avidly on subjects of his own choosing Blake made explorations into poetry.

William Blake was an English poet painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the romantic age his prophetic works have been said to fern “what is in proportions to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language”.

O....Books :

1. Song of innocence and of experience (1789)
2. And did those feet in ancient time (1994)
3. The chimney sweeper
4. The divine image
5. Milton: A poem in two books(1804)
6. Laughing song

Blake’s last years were spent at fountain court off the strand on the day of his death 1827 beholding her Blake is said to have cried…..

“stay Kate ! keep just as you are

I will draw your portrait

For you have ever been angles to me.”

    O.....Thomas Gray :

• Thomas Gray as a ‘poet’ 

• Thomas Gray’s Work :

1. The poems of Thomas gray (1768)
2. The poetical works of Thomas gray
3. English poems
4. The correspondence of Thomas gray
5. Elegy written in a country churchyard (1751)

In the third part of in his literary park Thomas gray turns lesion and translate to Norse poems “the faital sisters” and “the distant of adinat” (1761) Thomas gray translated his matrlat from Latin and was fond of doing it.

Looking in to Thomas gray poetry we can say that he was a true scoler familiar with the intellectual interest of his age and his work has a lot of precision as the classical school writer but was very romantic both in the style and spirit of writing poetry. Thomas gray would always he of the most famous alleges of words literature.

Thomas gray died on 30^th July 1771 in Cambridge and was buried beside his mother in the churchyard of stoke pages the setting for his famous elegy. His grave can still be seen there.