Enlightenment-+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__ - As new tools and machinery improved the amount of crops that could be planted and harvested the population exploded and more people moved out of the country and into the more rural areas.
 * __Glorious Revolution__ - James II fled England after Parliament invited his daughter Mary to rule England jointly with her husband. Once James fled England the Parliament was able to pass a Bill of Rights, ensuring limited freedoms to the people.
 * __Government revolutions__: American, French ect
 * __Start of the Industrial age__ - As innovative machines began to work their way into society the economy began to boom. Even though most British people still earned a farmer's wages the effects of an economic revolution was starting to take hold.
 * The Restoration: England restored monarchy
 * The School of Jonson and Donne

__**Important People**__


 * 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)