Commonwealth and Restoration

Poetry, Politics and pot Milton\nAndrew Marvel, the unofficial Poet Laureate to Cromwell, wrote one of the main(prenominal) texts of the Commonwealth, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwells issuing from Ireland (1650). He withal wrote a meter To Lucasta, Going to the Wars (1649). posterior Milton (1603-1674), is the major figure who cerebrate the Renaissance and the Restoration. Both stainless and Christian run through with(predicate) all his work, On the morning time of Christs bring outurition; Lycidas (1637). After the Restoration, he wrote his main work nirvana scattered (1667), published in 12 books. It is the major epic poem in slope which is round the myth of the Creation, with figures of God and Satan, crack and Eve, and the Fall of Man bodly. Later he wrote the long poem Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress (1678; second part in 1684), is a prose allegory. It is likely the most widely interpret of all books in English lite rature. \n\nAugustans and Satires\nJohn Wilmont, Earl of Rochester, was a kind of symbol of the Restoration because of his bearing: he was a rake, a man who gave his animation to pleasure, in particular sex and alcohol, but estimable before he became a Catholic so his life shows both the correct and drab sides of pleasure which illustrates a good moral.\nSatire became an important kind of numbers. \nJohn Dryden was a superior 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 consecrate Majesty welcomed the return of the queen mole rat in 1660; satirical poems much(prenominal) as Absalom and Achitophel in 1681, and The laurel 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 authority such as Of melodramatic Poesy in 1668, the commencement exercise of t heir kind in English; and his final work, The Secular masquerade costume in 1700. He also wrote ...