Poetry and Prose of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Catalog description

Neoclassical and pre-romantic literature. Poetry and prose of such writers as Dryden, Pope, Astell, Swift, Johnson, Addison and Steele, Burke, Gray, Wheatley, Wollstonecraft, and Edgeworth. Topics may include: courtship and marriage; education; feminism; political satire; manners and virtue; nature and beauty; the country and the city.