Augustans

The "Augustans" prided themselves on their resemblance to the poets of the great age of Rome.

Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

Portraits by Joshua Reynolds and Joseph Wright show clear-eyed Augustans full of Johnsonian sense, exquisite manners and grace, while the landed gentry's painter of choice, Arthur Devis, painted married couples at home in charmingly naïve fashion.

Browser's Delight Henrik Bering 2011

Only the imposition of his personal canon will show whether he is correct in believing that England's behaviourally challenged teens can be made to share his enthusiasm for an Augustan even other Augustans couldn't stand.

Only a sadist would inflict Dryden on our schoolchildren Catherine Bennett 2010

Instead, Gove's eccentric emphasis on a pair of Augustans who are commonly reserved for abler undergraduates suggests that his project for English literature is as instrumentalist as his retro, kings-and-queens version of history.

Only a sadist would inflict Dryden on our schoolchildren Catherine Bennett 2010

Like those venerable Augustans Dryden and Pope, she uses elevated tones and barbed words, has characters stand not for the individual but as criticism of the age, and never forgets wit and pleasure.

Erin Moure reads Lisa Robertson Lemon Hound 2009

It is not easy to formulate laws of art; at least, as the Augustans showed so woefully, the laws which are easy to formulate are bad laws.

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Between the Augustans and the Romantics, Thomas Lockwood finds a widening split between satire and poetry: it is not that satire was not being written, but that critical canons were changing, dismissing wit, reason, and politics as components alien to "pure" poetry.

Romantic Anger and Byron 1998

But when the selection of jurors began, it became clear that whether they lived on the Hill or in the swamp, Augustans all had one thing in common: They had never heard of Jim Williams.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

But when the selection of jurors began, it became clear that whether they lived on the Hill or in the swamp, Augustans all had one thing in common: They had never heard of Jim Williams.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

One would have expected Mr. Pham-Van-Tu to write Augustans in his spare time, but I happened to know he was a student, Wordsworth and wrote nature poems.

The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955