Commonwealth and Restoration

Poetry, Politics and washbowl Milton\nAndrew Marvel, the unofficial Poet Laureate to Cromwell, wrote oneness of the of import texts of the Commonwealth, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwells heel counter from Ireland (1650). He as well as wrote a verse form To Lucasta, Going to the Wars (1649). put-on Milton (1603-1674), is the major figure who cerebrate the Renaissance and the Restoration. Both genuine and Christian run by dint of all his work, On the forenoon of Christs nascence; Lycidas (1637). After the Restoration, he wrote his main work paradise illogical (1667), published in 12 books. It is the major epic poem in position which is nearly the myth of the Creation, with figures of God and Satan, raptus and Eve, and the Fall of Man mixture. Later he wrote the long poem Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress (1678; second start out in 1684), is a prose allegory. It is mathematical the most widely articulate of all books in incline literature. \n\nAugustans and Satires\nJohn Wilmont, Earl of Rochester, was a contour of symbol of the Restoration because of his emotional state: he was a rake, a man who gave his vivification to pleasure, particularly sex and alcohol, but expert before he became a Catholic so his life shows both the estimable and full-grown sides of pleasure which illustrates a good moral.\nSatire became an important kind of poem. \nJohn Dryden was a passkey of satire in poetry after the Restoration. He was a poet, playwright, and essayist. He wrote: Heroic Stanzas praised Cromwell on his death in 1658; To His set apart Majesty welcomed the return of the fag in 1660; satirical poems such(prenominal) as Absalom and Achitophel in 1681, and The bay wreath 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 drama and means such as Of melodramatic Poesy in 1668, the counterbalance of t heir kind in English; and his final work, The Secular masquerade in 1700. He also wrote ...