Elightened+British+Poetry

//The Enlightenment:// Through reason and observation of nature, human beings can discover the order underlying all things.

__**Important Events**__
 * Various revolutions, known as the "Age of Revolutions" or the "Age of Reason"
 * Agricultural Revolution
 * Glorious Revolution
 * Government revolutions: American, French ect
 * Start of the Industrial age
 * The Restoration: England restored monarchy
 * The School of Jonson and Donne

__**Important People**__ ~ English poet, dramatist and actor. ~ Famous for satirical plays (Volpone) ~ Enjoyed controversy ~ Eglish poet, author and polemicist ~ Civil servant for Egland ~ "Paradise Lost" ~ English Poet ~ Famous for satirical verse ~ Translated Homer ~ Strong use of "Heroic Couplet" ~ Anglo-Irish poet, satirist and essayist ~ Political pamphleteer (Whigs and Torries) ~ Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland ~ English writer, journalist and pamphleteer ~ Founder of the Enhlish novel ~ "Robinson Crusoe" ~ English poet, essayist and playwrite ~ Politician ~ Helped found The Spectator ~ Irish writer ~ Politician ~ Helped found The Spectator ~ English author, poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer ~ Refered to as "Dr. Johnson" ~ Published English dictionary __**Major Literary Works**__
 * Bren Jonson - (11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637)
 * John Milton - (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674)
 * Alexander Pope: Neoclassical style - (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744)
 * Johnathan Swift - (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745)
 * Daniel Defoe - (1659 – 24 April 1731)
 * Joseph Addison - (1 May 1672 – 17 June 1719)
 * Richard Steele - (12 March 1672 – 1 September 1729)
 * Samuel Johnson - (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784)