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.

All labels observed (5)

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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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Epodes literaryMovement Augustan literature
The Rambler literaryPeriod Augustan literature
The Vanity of Human Wishes literaryMovement Augustan literature
Tobias Smollett movement Augustan literature
Charles Churchill movement Augustan literature
this entity surface form: Augustan poetry
Tristram Shandy literaryMovement Augustan literature
British literature periodIncludes Augustan literature
James Thomson (poet, 1700–1748) movement Augustan literature
this entity surface form: Augustan poetry