List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literary creation?
【正确答案】:A.Alexander Pope,John Dryden,Samuel Johnson(任选两位作家).
B.They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and ac- cruacy and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. They seek proportion, unity, harmony and grace in literary expressions,in an effort to delight, instruct and correct human beings.primarily as social animals. Thus a polite, urbane, witty and intellectual art developed. (P81)