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Poets with tag Enlightenment:

Philosophical movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 18th century. The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on reason as the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and came to advance ideals such as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.

In France, the central doctrines of les Lumières were individual liberty and religious tolerance in opposition to an absolute monarchy and the fixed dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church. The Enlightenment was marked by an emphasis on the scientific method and reductionism along with increased questioning of religious orthodoxy.

Name	Years	Country	Tags	Works	Rank
John Donne	1572-1631	ENG	Christian, Didactism, Elizabethan, Enlightenment, Fantasy, Metaphysical poets, Philosophy, Renaissance, Satire, Sonnet	172	27
Ben Jonson	1572-1637	ENG	Blank verse, Elizabethan, Enlightenment, Laureate, Renaissance	93	118
George Herbert	1593-1633	ENG	Christian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Metaphysical poets, Sonnet	173	102
Thomas Carew	1595-1640	ENG	Enlightenment, Metaphysical poets, Cavalier poets, Tribe of Ben	34	345
John Milton	1608-1674	ENG	Blank verse, Christian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Epic, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet, Vernacular	88	28
Andrew Marvell	1621-1678	ENG	Enlightenment, Metaphysical poets, Vernacular	62	42
John Dryden	1631-1700	ENG	Blank verse, Classicism, Enlightenment, Laureate, Satire	104	285
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz	1651-1695	SPA	Enlightenment, Feminism	9	337
Anne Kingsmill Finch	1661-1720	ENG	Formalism, Bipolar disorder, Enlightenment	98	247
Jonathan Swift	1667-1745	IRL	Children, Didactism, Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, Satire	104	132
Alexander Pope	1688-1744	ENG	Classicism, Deism, Didactism, Enlightenment, Freemasons, Satire	82	48
Samuel Johnson	1709-1784	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Enlightenment, Satire	46	166
Thomas Gray	1716-1771	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Classicism, Enlightenment, Gothic, Graveyard poets, Romanticism, Sonnet	11	257
William Cowper	1731-1800	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Classicism, Enlightenment, Graveyard poets, Romanticism	403	161

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