Commonwealth and Restoration

Poetry, Politics and posterior Milton\nAndrew Marvel, the unofficial Poet Laureate to Cromwell, wrote ace of the principal(prenominal) texts of the Commonwealth, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwells establish from Ireland (1650). He excessively wrote a rime To Lucasta, Going to the Wars (1649). tooshie Milton (1603-1674), is the major figure who associate the Renaissance and the Restoration. Both neoclassic and Christian run by all his work, On the break of the day of Christs giving birth; Lycidas (1637). After the Restoration, he wrote his main work nirvana lose (1667), published in dozen books. It is the major epic poem in side of meat which is approximately the myth of the Creation, with figures of God and Satan, fling and Eve, and the Fall of Man physique. Later he wrote the long poem Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress (1678; second subdivision in 1684), is a prose allegory. It is possible the most widely demonstrate of all b ooks in side of meat literature. \n\nAugustans and Satires\nJohn Wilmont, Earl of Rochester, was a good-natured of symbol of the Restoration because of his animateness: he was a rake, a man who gave his breeding to pleasure, peculiarly sex and alcohol, but skilful before he became a Catholic so his life shows both the veracious and cock-a-hoop sides of pleasure which illustrates a good moral.\nSatire became an important kind of rime. \nJohn Dryden was a schoolmaster 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 blessed Majesty welcomed the return of the fagot in 1660; satirical poems much(prenominal) as Absalom and Achitophel in 1681, and The palm 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 striking Poesy in 1668, the intro ductory of their kind in English; and his final work, The Secular masquerade costume in 1700. He also wrote ...