Early Modern and Neoclassical Movements

Movements from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries governed by formal restraint and classical models: the intricate conceit-driven metaphysical poetry of early seventeenth-century England, the order and classical imitation of neoclassicism, and the emotional, anti-rationalist reaction of the German Sturm und Drang. Belongs here: a movement whose active period runs from roughly 1600 to the 1780s. Does not belong here: romanticism itself, the movement Sturm und Drang directly anticipates, tracked under the romantic group below.