Asher Period 1 Team 6 Enlightenment Synthesis

Synthesis

          Besides Moliere we found a few other authors that expressed criticism in other ways. The first example is Oliver Cromwell who wrote poetry that was elaborate and carnal. This kind of poetry wasn’t usually published because of the censorship of that era. This caused a break in the literary culture by breaking the censorship and moralist standards which opened a path for a new literary tradition. In the 1680s the career of Aphra Behn started which was mostly on comedy. She was the first professional British woman to be successful until there was a turn from comedy to political drama which reflected preoccupations and the political crisis during that time. Another person we found was Johann Sebastian Bach who was an influential German composer who rose to importance in the 1700s. Bach was an organist, who also wrote a body of sacred music that synthesized a variety of styles that influenced composers later on. Also there was Francis Bacon who was a philosopher who created the Baconian method of scientific investigation, which stressed observation and reasoning as a way to come to conclusions. Rene Descartes was heavily influenced by Bacon.