English Literature

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) Browne’s great work is theReligio Medici, i.e. The Religion of a Physician (1642), whic ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) own country. This, with his overflowing humor and numer- ous anecdotes and illustration ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) went straight to his mark, appealing directly to the judgment and feeling of his reader ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) on angling it stands almost alone in possessing a charming style, and so it will probab ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) It has lost the romantic impulse of youth, and become critical and intellectual; it mak ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS. What is meant by the Puritan period? What were the objects and t ...

CHAPTER VII. THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660) literature, tell why you liked or disliked it. Why is it a work for all ages and for al ...

CHAPTER VIII. PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700) THE AGE OF FRENCH INFLUENCE HISTORY OF THE PERIOD.It seems a curious contrad ...

CHAPTER VIII. PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700) a new idea of the value of life, like King Hezekiah, who af- ter his sicknes ...

CHAPTER VIII. PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700) remembered the excess of Puritan zeal, but forgot the despo- tism and injust ...

CHAPTER VIII. PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700) and the Anglo-Saxon people, when they tire of one figure- head, have always ...

CHAPTER VIII. PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700) in the diary of Evelyn,–another writer who reflects with won- derful accurac ...

CHAPTER VIII. PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700) a crisis in the history of our literature. The old Elizabethan spirit, with ...

CHAPTER VIII. PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700) allusions. The Restoration writers opposed this vigorously. From France they ...

CHAPTER VIII. PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700) his poetry. Chaucer had used the rimed couplet wonderfully well in hisCanter ...

CHAPTER VIII. PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700) JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700) Dryden is the greatest literary figure of the Restor ...

CHAPTER VIII. PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700) this period, the "Heroic Stanzas," was written on the death of Cromwell: His ...

CHAPTER VIII. PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700) During this time Dryden had become the best known liter- ary man of London, ...

CHAPTER VIII. PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700) of Orange; he was deprived of all his offices and pensions, and as an old ma ...

CHAPTER VIII. PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700) us as cutting and revengeful, rather than witty. The best known of these, an ...