Poets of the 17th and 18th centuries, also called the neoclassical period, focused on a revival of classical forms and constraints. Two well-known neoclassical poets were John Dryden and Alexander Pope, both of whom used heroic couplets and stanzas, satire, and other epic tropes to create mock heroic poetry with strict form. At the turn of the 19th century, poets began to relax the constraints placed on forms during the neoclassical period. Mary Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were among the female authors in the years surrounding the Romantic period who wrote to condemn English society's strict expectations of women. Another author, Joanna Baillie, was an influential source of admiration for well-known Romantic poets such as Lord Byron and Williamworth. In opposition to the formal regulations championed by neoclassical poets, Romantic poets focused on experimentation with form as a means of expressing their radical ideas that explored freedom in politics, society, education, nature and imagination. Romanticism was a literary movement in response to the Enlightenment ideals of the neoclassical period. Rather than being in direct conflict, authors from the two periods simply took different approaches to supporting a necessary critical assessment of their society through their writings. Janko Lavrin's book, Studies in European Literature, began with a chapter entitled "On the Romantic Mentality" in which Lavrin defined the Romantic period in relation to the neoclassical period; “[A]fter a period of fermentation and chaos, there follows a period of organization of discipline; and when this "conservative" period threatens to become obsolete and stagnant, a new centrifugal or...... middle of paper ......ra and De Monfort. " Gothic Studies 3.2 (2001): 117. Academic research completed Web. December 14, 2013. Horace. "Ars Poetica." The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism Ed. Vincent B. Leitch. New York: WW Norton & Company, 2001. 124. Print. Hubbell, J. Andrew. Question of nature: Byron and worth. » Worth Circle 41.1 (2010): 14-18. Web 14 December 2013. Lavrin, Janko Studies in European Literature 1970. Print. McGann, Jerome J. The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation Chicago, IL: University of Chicago, 1983. 61. Print. What is Romanticism?. Wollstonecraft, Mary. women's rights: by Mary Wollstonecraft with an introduction by Elizabeth Robins Pennell London: Walter Scott, 1891. 37. Print.