The term “mock heroic” refers to the most prominent poetic style of Augustan poetry. Mock heroic poems imitated the epic poetry of classical Greek and Roman poets such as Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. However, instead of the epics’ heroic themes of war, valor, and death, and martyrdom, Augustan poets such as John Dryden and Alexander Pope used the form to discuss mundane, quotidian things like family politics, quarrels in a marriage, fashion, and so on. The mock-heroic form of poetry used the elevated epic form to describe (sometimes, ridicule) inconsequential themes.
The mock-heroic form is closely related to the term “neoclassicism,” a Western movement in literature and other art forms that drew inspiration from the classical works of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Writers in the neoclassicism form sought inspiration from what they considered to be classical virtues – balance, order, restraint, and so on – to produce prose, poetry, and drama. Neoclassical writers asserted their intentions in clear, detailed, and often magnificent prose. Some neoclassicists even believed that the only way for writers of their time to become great, even unparalleled, was to imitate the ancients.
The mock-heroic form is closely related to the term “neoclassicism,” a Western movement in literature and other art forms that drew inspiration from the classical works of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Writers in the neoclassicism form sought inspiration from what they considered to be classical virtues – balance, order, restraint, and so on – to produce prose, poetry, and drama. Neoclassical writers asserted their intentions in clear, detailed, and often magnificent prose. Some neoclassicists even believed that the only way for writers of their time to become great, even unparalleled, was to imitate the ancients.
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