Neo-classicism, Romanticism and transitional authors

• "The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope (Neo-classicism)

Canto I
Canto II
Canto III
Canto IV
Canto V

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• Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (considered the first Romantic novel: experimental)

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• "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Grey (Transitional: Gothic elements)

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• "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns (Romanticism)

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