Wednesday, 20 June 2012

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A gradual change in the later half of the eighteenth  century


W.H. hudson says about people of Johnson's age that,"they found  themselves discontent with the way their fathers  had looked at life,with their formalism,their narrowness of sympathy and their controlling ideals.Weary of the long contiued artificiality,they began to crave for something natural and spontaneous in thought and language..They were quickened into renaissance of feeling.Man was treated Man now.Democracy prevaioled.


Main novelists of this Age were


1.Daniel Defoe
2.Jonanath Swift.
3.Joseph Addison.
4.George Berkeley
5.Dr.Samuel Johnson
6.Adam Smith
7.Oliver Goldsmith
8.David Hume
9.Edmund Burke.
10. Henry fielding
11.Samuel Richardson
12.Horace Walpole
13.Mathew Gregory Lewis.


Main poets of this Age.
1.Alexander Pope
2.William blake.
3.Thomas Gray
4.Robert Burns.
5.John Dyer
6.Dr Samuel Johnson.
7.William Collins.

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