John Locke,
Edmund Burke,
and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Reason drives peoples visions of how to approach writing.
No one has to cow-tow to authority!
Used to access the neo classical as the source of knowledge, but they reformulate it in the Enlightenment.
Pope as a writer....Wit
Neoclassical concepts: rules of the unities: time, place, and action. Also, it puts and emphasis on the importance of nature. (permanence, connection to the divine, the power of the divine..art must be measured and inspired from nature.
What is wit? To Pope it was intellectual acuity.
taking two dissimilar objects or thoughts and finding a common ground.
capacity to find hidden relationships underlying the appearance of things.
Broad and heated debate...what is Wit?, "wit is a negative quality, puns are the lowest form of writing. distorts clear and truthful insight."
Puritans saw it as morally defective and corrupt...
Three modes of communicationExpressive, transactional, and poetic
More of Pope
Wit is the poetic use of the language... being able to criticize poems is an art, see the picture of the poem and see the wit.
Follow Nature! derive inspiration from it...unity and order...look up "The Rape of the Lock" by Pope..
Literary Artifacts,,,,think out a few in my head for class..
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