The neo-classicists followed the conventional
uniformity in manners and speech. Reason and regularity was their guiding stars.
They had little appreciation for the external nature or any beauty other than
formalized art. This had resulted in the emergence of artificiality in place
of naturalism
In poetry importance was given to abstractness of
thought and expression, resulting in artificiality & superficiality. Suppression
of passion and emotion are visible in neo-classical literature. It was a
literature of intelligence not a literature of passion or creative genius. The
language of poetry was artificial and mannered; the humbler aspects of life and
literature were ignored.
• Closed Heroic Couplet:
Poetry was written in closed heroic couplet. Unlike
the poets of Elizabethan and restoration, the neo-classicist barely tried other
forms
Moving from the renaissance period to the period of
neo-classicism is a climbing down. Narrowed creative vision from cosmic vision
to social view, from a heroic nature of man to a smaller issue in life is the
other characteristics of this period.
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