of cultural interactions among Latin and Bible and English. A dogma of the Bible won the international status of religious culture with English and the English literature. This medieval survival and interconnection of the English poetry and prose gain the dramatic culmination in the English Renaissance of Shakespeare and the classical culmination in the English neo-classical period of Pope, Dryd
of Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. The eldest of 14 children of Eramus Dryden and Mary Pickering – an Parliamentary supporting family with Puritan learnings.
In 1644, sent to Westminster School as a King’s Scholar under Richard Busby and was an avid student ofclassics.
In 1650, went up to Trinity College, Cambridge.
In 1654, obtained his BA, graduating top of the list for Trini
A. Childhood
One of the few stories that survive from Alfred's early life relates that his mother, Osburh, showed her sons a beautifully illuminated volume of Saxon poetry and promised to make a gift of it to the first of them who was able to read it. Alfred quickly learned to read it aloud, and was made a gift of the book when he was only six years old. Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a
Classicism
In the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seeks to emulate.
Originally Classicism was professed for humanism, equality, liberty, etc.
Later it was studied deductively. So the art ofclassicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained.
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism -the name given to quite
of the plays of Shakespeare has a "meaning," although it would be equally false to say that a play of Shakespeare is meaningless. All great poetry gives the illusion of a view of life. When we enter into the world of Homer, or Sophocles, or Virgil, or Dante, or Shakespeare, we incline to believe that we are apprehending something that can be expressed intellectually; for every precise emotion t