allusions and references to Greek and Roman mythology and to ancient writers and historians 2. Predilection for abstractions and excessive use of personifications 3. Respect for and promotion of order and reason with emphasis on clarity of thought and orderly structure 4. Focus on formal perfection like metric regularity and love of graceful language 5. A conspicuous want of feeling and sentiment 6. The dominating neoclassic form: Heroic couplet (two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter) 7. Producing the effect of an artificially trimmed beauty, beautiful but often lifeless What a piece of work is man; How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! ---Hamlet by Shakespeare
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