ENG 2106 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: National Epic, Aeneid
12 Feb 2014
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Perceived inability of modern world to produce great national epic due to cultural decline. A line of 10 syllables, broken into 5 feet (a unit of two syllables, the first unstressed, the second stressed). Authors who thought that best art, culture, and philosophy lay in the past. They thought that modern authors should translate ancient works and use them as models for their own writing and thinking. Pope and dryden both published best-selling translations of the. Argued that their own age had made significant progress. Milton, newton, and the scientific revolution as examples of progress in human civilization. Writing that is intended for circulation amongst a circle of friends, rather than publication on the open market. Late 17th and 18th c britain was famed not only for its augustan poets, but also for what has been called the scientific revolution . Newton"s work and that of other figures of the scientific revolution was based on empiricism, or sensory observation.
