Poetry of the Augustan Age & the Age of Johnson (1660-1770) | Lecture 9

when John dren's chorus in the play the secular mask performed at the turn of the century in the year 1700 goes like this thy Wars brought nothing about thy lovers were all untrue his well an old age is out and time to begin a new and in terms of poetry and culture the Augustine age which begins

with the return of King Charles II and rather the return of the the monarchy it truly was a time of new beginnings looking back last week we explored early 17th century poetry we looked primarily at the metaphysical style but we also considered the Puritan and Cavalier Styles but this poetry especially the metaphysical poets or rather the

metaphysical style tended to prefer the abstract the idiosyncratic the UN usual the various the unexpected Augustine age poetry beginning with the return of Charles II prioritized the reasonable the material the empirical the sane their interests are in stability order and what is rational so welcome everyone to our lecture on the Augustine age in the 18th

century poets I'm joined over Zoom by my patreon supporters who are supporting my public Humanities work here so thanks to them for making this series possible for you and we'll meet after this lecture for conversation and Q&A and if you on YouTube would like to join us and to support my work in making the study of

poetry accessible uh to all outside the university you can find more information on patreon through the link below in this lecture I'll survey the wide and prolific poetry of the restoration often called England's Augustine age poetry I'll focus on John Dryden and Alexander Pope in the first half primarily and then I want to turn