Neoclassical Period

Courtney Gilmore
January 24, 2012
3rd Period Honors British Literature
Mr. Kitchens

In my twelfth kind language arts class we are learning roughly the Neoclassical Period which started in the 18th century. In which umteen writers and poets put all their hard working ideas into their literature and visual arts which were inspired by the Greek and Latin period. I opt two of the most important people in the neoclassical period John Milton and Antonio Canova. They influenced many people with their famed poems and sculptures which is why they are still important and talked about today.
Neoclassicalism was a time era where artists looked to the classical period for their creative eagerness to make an effort in the classical time. The artists and writers got their ideas from religious and semipolitical matters to produce their poetry and art work. It was defined as the classicism that dominated English literature during restoration age and lasted into the ordinal century. They believed in Greek ideals, passion and great communication or else than self-expression. They celebrated human potential, individualism and imagination.




For John Milton I contain one of his poems Sonnet 1 it was about a bird who portends fill in and good fortunes to whoever listens to his beautiful son and the bird of loathe which is the bad person in the poem he is associated with the jealously towards the people who listens to Nightingales song his cuckoo proposed infidelity causing people to associate with hate and revenge. For Antonio Canova I choose one of his most famous sculptures Cupid And Psyche which was a love affair between Cupid and Psyche where cupids mother genus Venus was angry and jealous of Princess Psyche because all the men where worshipping her so she sends her son Cupid to do her dirty work for her and punish her by making her fall for a horrible ugly monster. Until Cupid sees her he falls in love with because shes so beautiful.
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