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    This document discusses English literature during the 17th century Age of Milton. It was a period of political and religious turmoil, including the English Civil War and the rule of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth and Protectorate. [1] The greatest poet of this era was John Milton, best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. [2] Other major poets mentioned who wrote during this period include Andrew Marvell, John Donne, Ben Johnson, and Robert Herrick. [3] Their works reflected the ideological divisions and philosophical influences of the time.

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    This document discusses English literature during the 17th century Age of Milton. It was a period of political and religious turmoil, including the English Civil War and the rule of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth and Protectorate. [1] The greatest poet of this era was John Milton, best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. [2] Other major poets mentioned who wrote during this period include Andrew Marvell, John Donne, Ben Johnson, and Robert Herrick. [3] Their works reflected the ideological divisions and philosophical influences of the time.

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    The Age of Milton

    Literature A 2014
    Prof. Cecilia I. Kennedy
    Periods : Caroline Period
    Time Span: 1625-49
    Monarch: Charles I
    Authors: John Ford, John Milton
    Charles I was executed 1649


    Commonwealth and
    Protectorate
    Time Span: 1649-1660
    Movements:
    Baroque Style, and later, Rococo Style
    Authors: Milton, Andrew Marvell, Thomas
    Hobbes
    The Restoration
    Time Span: 1660-1700
    Authors: John Dryden
    Historical background
    Timeframe:
    Reign of Charles I:
    english Parliament s Struggle for power
    Kings Vain attempt to resist new force
    CIVIL WAR: Parliamentary side wins
    puritans executed king
    Republic declared
    Dictatorship under William Cromwell
    1660: Restoration of monarchy : Charles II
    Attempt to return to the old way
    Old land-owning class sinks and new middle class rises


    Literature of the Period
    In 17th c: even literature takes sides
    Cavalier poets
    Roundhead poets: Puritans, new men
    Puritan poets: Miltons the greatest in verse and prose
    Genres: prose and non-dramatic poetry
    playhouses closed in 1642 (drama became underground
    activity)
    Poetry of the time other than Milton:
    two main influences: John Donne and Ben Johnson
    Ben Johnson
    Followed the ancients
    His examples: Horace, Virgil
    took from Roman writers peculiar pagan spirit:
    Horaces phrase: Carpe Diem: pluck the day like a flower
    Robert Herrick
    1591-1674
    Follows Ben Johnson closely in form and pagan philosophy
    Lover of pleasure
    His poems (eg Hesperides): full of transience of human joy,
    brevity of human life
    Andrew Marvell
    Andrew Marvell
    1621-1678
    Same theme of brevity of life in his poem To His Coy Mistress
    he has elegancy and delicay of Ben Johnson, but also
    metaphysical voice of john Donne
    Characteristic of these Metaphysical poets: seriousness lying
    beneath the wit and fancy
    We can hear in him voice of 17th c and of pagan Roman poets
    Public persona: Puritan
    admirer of Cromwell
    devout bible reader
    supporter of joyless regime (spirit so
    unlike that of his verse)
    Andrew Marvell
    Contradictory: whatever Marvells public face, his private voice
    (as revealed in his poems) is bright, humorous, tolerant, above
    all civilised
    With his many facets (wit, seriousness, intellectuality,
    sensuousness, force, and compassion) next to Milton as the
    most important poet of the period
    Other secular poetry of the age
    Courtly poets: Thomas Carew
    Precursor of Cavalier poets: Suckling
    Lovelace (1618-58)
    John Cleveland
    John Milton

    John Milton
    Biography

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