The Neoclassical Period

It was a movement of arts, literature, theatre, music and architecture, based on the Ancient Greece of Ancient Rome.

We first started with the period of Restoration (1660-1700). One of the most important writters was John Milton and his most famous work is "Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained" which talks about the temptation of Christ.

Another one is John Locke , known as the Father of Classical Liberalism wrote "Two Treatises of Government", probably his most known work and it is a work of political philosophy.

During the 18th century  appeared the Age of Enlightenment (or Age of Reason): movement that changed the point of view of the period to a rational and scientific approach to religious, social, political, and economic issues.

In the Augustan Age,the most  poet is Alexander Pope. His greatest mock-heroic poem was "The Rape of the Lock".

Another one is Daniel Defoe who wrote fictional books.His most important work is "Robinson Crusoe" which narrates the travels of Alexander Selkirk.

 

Jonathan Swift did another.He made the best known full-length work called "Gulliver´s Travels", a satire and a classic of English  literature.

Finally, another one was Samuel Johnson, an English writter and another important poet who contributes the English literature.He wrote "A Dictionary of the English Language" which influenced dictionaries in the history of the English language.

Sources : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature