2. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) The Age of Johnson marked the end of the first period of
Neoclassicism, and Samuel Johnson is the major author of the second one. Johnson was a man of many talents, including those of lexicographer, translator, journalist/essayist, travel writer, biographer, editor„.iii4 critic. He injected into the Neoclassical Age his own energy and enthusiasm, an appreciation of nature and the country life, and an ever-widening range of intellectual interests.
For modern readers, Johnson's persona seems to dominate this period, and that is because at least in part, they ! at Johnson through the eyes of his friend and biographer, James Boswell, whose best remembered work is his The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791).
3. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Alexander Pope was born in London, England, on May 21, 1688, to a Catholic family. England's break with the Roman Catholic Church in the previous century meant that sentiment against Catholics in England was still strong. Pope attended school in secret until his family was forced to leave London and move to the Berkshire countryside in southwest England. Pope published his first poems in 1711 to great acclaim. This achievement brought him into literary circles, and he became friends with writers such as Jonathan Swift and Richard Steele.
7. Write Short notes on: 1. Wordsworth Wordsworth (1770-1850) is a romantic critic, and among the romantic critics, his position is second to Coleridge. Wordsworth both as a poet and a critic is pioneer to romantic revival. He advocated a new theory about the content and form of poetry. The originality in his theory of poetry. And of poetic diction, and his conception of his criticism. Wordsworth is essentially a poet and not a critic, but whatever critical theories he has propounded are quite profound and provoking like Dante he made significant observations on the problem of