Saturday, August 26, 2017
'Commonwealth and Restoration'
'Poetry, government and gutter Milton\nAndrew Marvel, the unsancti championd Poet Laureate to Cromwell, wrote one of the main texts of the Commonwealth, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwells Return from Ireland (1650). He besides wrote a meter To Lucasta, firing to the Wars (1649). whore manipulate Milton (1603-1674), is the study figure who golf links the Renaissance and the damages. both(prenominal) classical and rescuerian run by all his report, On the Morning of Christs birth; Lycidas (1637). After the Restoration, he wrote his main work nirvana bewildered (1667), published in twelve books. It is the study epic poem in incline which is about the apologue of the Creation, with figures of God and Satan, pass and Eve, and the Fall of Man miscellanea. by and by he wrote the coherent poem Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. sewer Bunyan, The Pilgrims come on (1678; second factor in 1684), is a prose allegory. It is possible the almost widely picture of all book s in face literature. \n\nAugustans and Satires\nJohn Wilmont, Earl of Rochester, was a figure of symbol of the Restoration because of his liveliness: he was a rake, a man who gave his smell to joy, especially bring up and alcohol, but unless before he became a Catholic so his life shows both the groovy and bad sides of pleasure which illustrates a smashing moral.\nSatire became an crucial kind of poetry. \nJohn Dryden was a insure of satire in poetry later on the Restoration. He was a poet, playwright, and essayist. He wrote: venturesome Stanzas praised Cromwell on his destruction in 1658; To His hallowed Majesty welcomed the drive off of the king in 1660; satirical poems such(prenominal) as Absalom and Achitophel in 1681, and The Medal in 1682; MacFlecknoe in 1682, which aims at Thomas Shadwell, his literary rival, whom Dryden represents as the master of dullness; essays on the nature of gaming and representation such as Of melodramatic Poesy in 1668, the first of their kind in English; and his final work, The lay Masque in 1700. He also wrote ...'
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