Augustan literature

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Augustan literature is a period of early 18th-century British writing characterized by satirical, neoclassical works that emphasized reason, order, and social commentary.

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Label Occurrences
Augustan literature canonical 45
Augustan poetry 9
English Augustan poetry 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British literature movement
literary period
country Kingdom of Great Britain
endTime circa 1745
field English literature
followedBy Pre-Romantic literature
Romantic literature
follows Restoration drama
Restoration theatre
surface form: Restoration literature
genre drama
poetry
prose
hasCharacteristic classical allusions
emphasis on order
emphasis on reason
literary criticism and theory
moral didacticism
neoclassicism
polished heroic couplets
political satire
satire
social commentary
urban themes
hasTheme corruption in politics
human folly
reason versus passion
social pretension
inception early 18th century
influenced Romanticism
surface form: English Romanticism

later satirical traditions
influencedBy Horace
Juvenal
Virgil
classical Roman literature
language English
literaryForm mock-epic
periodical essay
realistic novel
mainLocation England
namedAfter Augustan age
surface form: Augustan Age of ancient Rome
notableAuthor Alexander Pope
Daniel Defoe
Eliza Haywood
Henry Fielding
John Gay
Jonathan Swift
Joseph Addison
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Richard Steele
Samuel Johnson
notableWork A Modest Proposal
Gulliver's Travels
Joseph Andrews
Moll Flanders
Robinson Crusoe
The Beggar's Opera
The Dunciad
The Rape of the Lock
The Spectator
Tom Jones
partOf 18th-century literature
startTime circa 1700

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John Gay movement Augustan literature
Fables literaryMovement Augustan literature
The Shepherd's Week partOf Augustan literature
this entity surface form: English Augustan poetry
Polly Peachum literaryMovement Augustan literature
Polly movement Augustan literature
Alexander Pope movement Augustan literature
Jonathan Swift movement Augustan literature
Duchess of Queensberry socialCircle Augustan literature
subject surface form: Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry
this entity surface form: Augustan literary circle
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes literaryMovement Augustan literature
this entity surface form: Augustan poetry
Turnus literaryPeriod Augustan literature
Sir Samuel Garth movement Augustan literature
Colonel Jack literaryPeriod Augustan literature
Joseph Addison movement Augustan literature
Henry Fielding movement Augustan literature
Eliza Haywood movement Augustan literature
The Rape of the Lock literaryMovement Augustan literature
The Dunciad literaryMovement Augustan literature
Gulliver's Travels literaryMovement Augustan literature
Joseph Andrews literaryMovement Augustan literature
Trivia literaryMovement Augustan literature
Matthew Prior movement Augustan literature
this entity surface form: Augustan poetry
Martinus Scriblerus literaryPeriod Augustan literature
Monday; or, The Squabble literaryMovement Augustan literature
Thursday; or, The Spell literaryMovement Augustan literature
Friday; or, The Dirge literaryMovement Augustan literature
The Conscious Lovers literaryPeriod Augustan literature
An Essay on Man literaryPeriod Augustan literature
Windsor-Forest literaryMovement Augustan literature
Eloisa to Abelard literaryPeriod Augustan literature
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot literaryMovement Augustan literature
Moral Essays literaryMovement Augustan literature
Imitations of Horace influencedBy Augustan literature
this entity surface form: Augustan poetry
Imitations of Horace movement Augustan literature
John Arbuthnot movement Augustan literature
The Battle of the Books literaryMovement Augustan literature
Edith Pope associatedWith Augustan literature
this entity surface form: English Augustan poetry
Thomas Parnell literaryMovement Augustan literature
Thomas Parnell movement Augustan literature
this entity surface form: Augustan poetry
Lord Lansdowne patronOf Augustan literature
this entity surface form: Augustan writers
Remedia Amoris literaryPeriod Augustan literature
Remedia Amoris literaryMovement Augustan literature
this entity surface form: Augustan poetry
Tristia literaryPeriod Augustan literature
Epistulae ex Ponto literaryPeriod Augustan literature
Odes literaryMovement Augustan literature
this entity surface form: Augustan poetry
Satires literaryMovement Augustan literature
this entity surface form: Augustan poetry
Epistles movement Augustan literature