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Enlightenment Literature

Gerald Lucas — Sat, 08/16/2008 - 09:49

The name given to the historical period in Europe from roughly the latter half of the seventeenth century and the eighteenth century.

Background & Context

  • Enlightenment Ideas
  • Neoclassicism
  • The Heroic Couplet

Literary Texts

  • Molière’s Tartuffe
  • Voltaire’s Candide

Commentaries and Criticism

  • Pope: Essay on Critical Man
  • Allusion in Neoclassical Poetry

Other Pages of Relevance

  • Satire
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  • Early 17th-Century Literature
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  • Epic Poetry

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