Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Restoration was an age of poetry. Not only was poetry the most popular form of literature, but it was also the most significant form of literature, as poems affected political events and immediately reflected the times. It was, to its own people, an age dominated only by the king, and not by any single genius.
The poem was "rushed into print" within a month. [1] The title is a reference to the classical threnody , a poem of mourning, and to Charles as a "new Augustus " [ 2 ] (see Augustan literature ). It is subtitled "A Funeral-Pindarique Poem Sacred to the Happy Memory of King Charles II," and is one of several poems on the subject published at the ...
Sir William Davenant (baptised 3 March 1606 – 7 April 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright.Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras and who was active both before and after the English Civil War and during the Interregnum.
The poem well illustrates Dryden's lifelong commitment to peace and political stability. [citation needed] It also shows that Dryden was looking for a royal patron. [citation needed] The name of the poem Astraea Redux is defined in The Nuttall Encyclopaedia as "an era which piques itself on the return of the reign of justice to the earth."
Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was the rector of All Saints.He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering, paternal grandson of Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Barone t (1553–1632), and wife Frances Wilkes, Puritan landowning gentry who supported the Puritan cause and ...
Category: English Restoration plays. ... Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects
Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty: 1842 The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale 1800 "'Tis not for the unfeeling, the falsely refined" Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty: 1815 To the Cuckoo 1802 "O Blithe New-comer! I have heard," Poems of the Imagination. 1807 She was a phantom of delight 1803 ":She was a phantom of ...
In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850) is an elegiac, narrative poem in 2,916 lines of iambic tetrameter, composed in 133 cantos, each canto headed with a Roman numeral, and organised in three parts: (i) the prologue, (ii) the poem, and (iii) the epilogue. [4]