The+Augustans

The Augustan age was the era from the end of the Restoration Era (1690) to the death of Alexander Pope (1744). The major contributors to the Augustan movement were and [|John Dryden] for poetry and [|Alexander Pope], [|Joseph Addison] and [|Jonathon Swift] in other works of prose. The Augustan Era brought rapid development of the novel, drama also changed from "political satire into melodrama (wikipedia.org/wiki/augustanliterature)" and poetry became a form of personal exploration. The Augustan era made literature similar to what it is today, and transformed literature for the course of history. Home

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