'Commonwealth and Restoration'

'Poetry, Politics and conjuration Milton\nAndrew Marvel, the unofficial Poet laureate to Cromwell, wrote one of the master(prenominal) texts of the Commonwealth, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwells sire from Ireland (1650). He alike wrote a song To Lucasta, Going to the Wars (1649). rear Milton (1603-1674), is the major attri plainlye who links the renascence and the Restoration. Both innocent and Christian lock through wholly his work, On the dawning of Christs Nativity; Lycidas (1637). afterward the Restoration, he wrote his principal(prenominal) work paradise Lost (1667), print in twelve books. It is the major epic poem poem in incline which is slightly the myth of the Creation, with figures of matinee idol and Satan, Adam and Eve, and the go across of Man contour. Later he wrote the long poem Paradise Regained and shit Agonistes. John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress (1678; moment part in 1684), is a prose everyegory. It is thinkable the most astray read of all books in English literature. \n\nAugustans and badinages\nJohn Wilmont, Earl of Rochester, was a kind of attribute of the Restoration because of his keep: he was a rake, a creation who gave his life to pleasure, peculiarly sex and alcohol, but just to begin with he became a Catholic so his life shows both(prenominal) the good and naughty sides of pleasure which illustrates a good moral.\nSatire became an important kind of numbers. \nJohn Dryden was a master of ridicule 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 Sacred majesty welcomed the return of the exponent in 1660; satiric poems such as Absalom and Achitophel in 1681, and The laurel wreath in 1682; MacFlecknoe in 1682, which aims at doubting Thomas Shadwell, his literary rival, whom Dryden represents as the master of obtuseness; essays on the character of drama and example such as Of Dramatic poem in 1668, the premier of their kind in English; and his nett work, The Secular masquerade in 1700. He also wrote ...'