There are so many writers of the puritan and Restoration age. So Today we are going to discuss about any one writer. Who is very famous in this age.so we would like to discuss about John Dryden. who comes from the Restoration age. so The age of Restoration was very famous because of John Dryden was there for his famous work. Let us see the some basic information of the Restoration age.
The Reign of charles II. He was king of Restoration age. The term Restoration means The Restoration of Monarchy. when charles came at that time , The theaters were reopen. After James II came for Reign. There were two parties like a Whigs and Tories. also we know that the now a days in our country both parties are working as take seat of reign like congress and bhajap.so both have own thoughts to take reign and believe to people for some vote. so same things were happening with the people.
These are the main writers of the Restoration age. whose name are given below.
👉 John Dryden
Samuel butler
Hobbes and Locke
Evelyn and Pepys.
so Today's our major writes is John Dryden.
Here is picture of John Dryden.
John Dryden was born on 9 August 1631 at Northamptonshire, England. He was known as poet, Literary critic, play wright, and Librettist. John Dryden was educated from the west minister school, Trinity college, Cambridge.
John Dryden came from a landowning family with connection to parliament and the church of England. His material grand father was Rector of all saints. He was son of Erasmus Dryden and Mary Pickering. His family were Parliamentary supporters with Puritans learning. He was an english poet ,Dramatist and Critic. He was also leading figure of the Restoration age. He was so Dominating person that the Whole age was known as the The age of Dryden. Water Scott called him as Glorious john. He left behind almost 30 works for stage as well as a major Critical study ( An Essay Dramatic poesy) and a Number of Translations including the works Virgil.
After John Donne and John Milton ,John Dryden was the greatest english poet of the Seventeenth century. He published his first important poem, Heroic stanzas (1659), a eulogy On Cromwell's death. Here is Life related video of John Dryden.
so The video is describing the all life and works of john Dryden.
Q (2) Any one more than one Literary text written during this age
so The both ages are very popular but today we are going to discuss about some of the famous text and some of the famous work, which are given below. Today we go to one literary work of john Dryden is Absalom and Achitophel.
The poem Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden. In that poem The king charles II appeared as king David. His natural son is Duke of Mon mouth. In that story part there was one king his name was David.so he had so many relation with another woman. At that time The all things were happening for a king. In that particular time king was free to anything. also king had one son .his name was Absalom and he had one friend Achitophel. so Absalom was in very known person in front of people of king.so He had most popularity in front of people.so The people of Jews were like to him for a Bravery.
so After the story goes to that we know very well now a days, we all have two parties to take the reign of kingdom. Like a Bhajap and congress. Also in that poem one character is working like a we can say that any one can try to convince to battle with any one. so in that poem Achitophel is doing his work as this type of things. But Absalom was good man so end was good in this story. I would like to Include one video regarding to the poem.
Let us come to the third question which is given below.
Q(3) Peppy's Diary
This work has been selected by scholars as being Culturally Important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
who was Samuel Peppy's?
Born on 1633, Died 1703
A Londoner
A clerk in the Exchequer
Fellow the Royal society
The Diary
Period covered : 1 Jan 1660 to 31 may
1,250,000 words: 3,100 page : 6 volumes
written in shorthand
Q (4) general characteristics of the puritan and Restoration age
There are two videos of the puritan age. so today we are going to discuss about the Literary characteristics of the puritan age.
Literary characteristics: After the death of James I in 1625, the new monarch Charles I took religious persecution to a new level. He was asked by the Parliament to sign the petition of rights but he continued to show open disregard to Parliament and people.
He also suffered unsuccessful foreign expeditions to France etc. The Civil War helped the Puritans to set up the Commonwealth. Oliver Cromwell was able to galvanize a military dictatorship during Protectorate up until 1660 when Monarchy was restored. Puritans came to American land in search of religious freedom from the Anglican Church or the High Church and the persecution of the Puritans under the King and Queen of the time. The first Puritan or Pilgrim settlement is at Plymouth. The Puritans had a huge cultural and political role in crystallizing the American life. There imported notions regarding religion and Enlightenment form the bedrock of new settlement culture.
The prominent writers of the age are William Bradford, John Winthrop, Edward Taylor etc. William Bradford wrote extensively about Puritan life in terms of honest and hard working folks.
He celebrated the heroism of the simple or ordinary people. John Winthrop also described the various enterprises of the Puritan life with spirituality being the ultimate objective. In routine life, there were activities like governance, trading and farming. The most prominent writer of the age in England was John Milton with works like paradise lost and Paradise Regained.
LITERARY CHARACTERISTICS OF RESTORATION AGE
The literature of the Restoration period marked the complete breaking of ties with the Renaissance literature. It reflected the spirit of the age. The spirit of corruption and moral laxity, which were predominant in the social life of the restoration, are reflected in literature. The following are the chief feature of the period.
Realism and formalismRestoration literature is realistic. It was very much concerned with life in London, and with details of dress, fashions and manners. The early Restoration writers, observes sought to paint realistic pictures of corrupt court and society, and emphasized vices rather than virtues and gave us coarse, low plays without interest or moral significance. Like Hobbes, they saw only the externals of man, his body and appetites, not his soul and his ideal. Later, however, this tendency to realism became more wholesome. While it neglected romantic poetry, in which youth is eternally interested, it led to a keener study of the practical motives which govern human action. The Restoration writers eschewed all extravagances of thought and language and aimed at achieving directness and simplicity of expression. Dryden accepted the excellent rule for his prose, and adopted the heroic couplet, as the next best thing for the greater part of this poetry. It is largely due to Dryden that writers developed formalism of style, that precise, almost mathematical elegance, miscalled classicism, which ruled the English literature for the next century.
French Influence:
In this age , There are so many writers who wrote his work as a different point of view. Like a The poem of Rochester, the plays of Dryden, Congreve , Wycherley, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, All popular in their day, are mostly unreadable. also shakespeare Mid summer nights etc.
The couplet
The form of Heroic couplet was very famous at that time, but the famous writer was John Dryden. He wrote so many works in the Heroic couplet. Also Chaucer had used the rimed couplet wonderfully in his Canterbury Tales.
New tendencies
with the final rejection of the restoration drama we reach a crisis in the history of our literature. The old Elizabethan spirit, with its patriotism, its creative vigor, its love of romance and the puritan spirit with its moral and at first there was nothing to take their places.
Dryden when he said that in his prose and poetry he was drawing the outline of new art but had no teacher to instruct him. but literature is progressive art, and soon the writers the tendencies of their own the tendency to realism, and the tendency to that preciseness and elegance of expression which marks our literature for the next hundred years.
Conclusion
The age of Restoration and The age of puritan are very interesting age. And also There are so many writes of both the ages but John Milton and John Dryden is famous figure of these age .And both the ages are reflected with current time.so we know very that the now we are looking that the current issue and situation of the our country.
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