The document discusses the Augustan Age, a period in the 18th century characterized by a desire for order, clarity, and stability. During this time, writers were inspired by Latin authors and imitated classical forms such as the epic, pastoral, satire, and Pindaric Ode. They believed the role of the poet was to explore universal human experiences and critique issues within society through reason rather than religion.

1. The Augustan Age
The The
seventeenth eighteenth
century was a century was
characterized
period of by desire for
tumultuos order, clarity,
changes. and stability.

2. New thinkers
 In the scientific
revolution many
philosophers such as
Thomas Hobbes,
Renè Descartes and
John Locke spread
the idea that reason
and not religion was
the key to
understand the world
and the man.

3. SouSS
 Writers of the
period were
inspired by Latin
authors:
 Ovid, Horace and
Virgil belonging to
The Golden Age or
AUGUSTAN AGE.

4.  They imitated classical forms such
as: epic, pastoral, satire and
Pindaric Ode, and they believed
that the poet had a social role: to
explore the universal human
experience and to explore the evils
of the society.
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