ENGL 2210 Lecture Notes - The Rape Of The Lock, Earl King, Lyrical Ballads
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Man has limitless potential, he is not destined to do one thing from birth. Characteristics: delight in reason, reverence for order, distrust of innovation and invention, believed the world design was centered around man. Man is the center of the universe : pragmatic theory of art: literature should be judged in terms of its service to man, not for frivolity. Essays on : literature is meant to instruct and correct man; to appeal to reason, not emotion, essays, letters, satires, parodies, deism: the great clockmaker , symmetry and delight in design. Types of literature: satire: literature manner that blends a literature attitude with humor and wit. Horatian: gentle, aims to correct: mock epic: burlesques the real epic by treating a trivial subject in the style of an epic. (a real epic describes actions consisting of great deeds with supernatural influence) When you think of neoclassicism, thing of balance, symmetry, baroque, and portraits in art.
