Augustan poetry
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In English literature, Augustan poetry is a branch of Augustan literature, and refers to the poetry of the 18th century, specifically the first half of the century. The term comes most originally from
Alexander Pope, the single poet who most influenced the Augustan age.
A William Blake illustration for Edward Young's Night Thoughts.
Augustan literature
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Augustan literature is a style of British literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century and ending in the 1740s, with the deat
Queen Anne
William Hogarth's Gin Lane is not entirely caricature, as in 1750, over a fourth of all houses in St Giles were gin shops, all unlicensed.
A woodcut of Daniel Defoe
A portrait of Tobias Smollett