18th Century + Restoration Non-Poetry Movements

Created, Compiled, and Narrated byStephen Cossa

Specific Movements

• Restoration Comedy– Breeches Parts

• Heroic Drama• Pathetic Drama– She-Tragedy

• Modern Novel

Overarching Motifs

• Virtues of Old• Society vs Individuals• Restore morale• Emotional connections

“Sound and Sense”True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar; When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise!

-Alexander Pope

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