Neo-Classical / Augustan Age (1700 -1798)

Augustan Age

Introduction

The Late 18th Century Poetry

Poetry in the Augustan Age

Poetic Trends of the Augustan Age

Graveyard Poetry

The Ode

Pindaric Ode

Horation Ode

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MajorPoets of the Augustan Age

Alexnder Pope (1688 - 1744)

Edward Young (1683 - 1765)

James Thomson (1700 - 1748)

Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

John Gay (1685 - 1732)

Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771)

William Collins (1721 - 1759)

Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)

William Cowper (1731 - 1800)

George Crabbe (1754 - 1832)

Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)