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2. The Seventeenth Century (1603-1660)
• The seventeenth century was a time of great
social and political disturbances.
• This century is marked by civil war, regicide,
restoration and glorious revolution.
• This century witnesses all these upheavals.

3. • It is the first half of 17th century and also known a
Puritan Age.
PURITANISM- is a dominant force during this period
Puritans- is a group of English-speaking protestants
who were dissatisfied with the religious reformation
movement carried out during the reign of Elizabeth.
-they wanted a complete purification of church of
England.
• John Milton was the greatest literary force of this
period.

4. Jacobean period 1603-1625
• James I ascended to the throne and he ruled until 1625
• Jacobean derived from Latin word jacobus which refers to
James I
• This period is an extension of Elizabethan
Caroline period 1625-1649
• It is named after Charles I, he railed England for 24 years
• Caroline is derived from word carolus Latin version for Charles
• It is deeply affected by political unrest and civil war between
cavaliers and roundheads

5. 3 Schools of Poetry
1. Metaphysical poetry- any of the poets in 17th century, who inclined
to the personal and intellectual complexity and concentration that is
displayed in the poetry of John Donne.
• John Donne- is often considered the greatest love poet in the english
language.
- He is also noted for his religious verse and treatises and for his
sermons, which rank among the best of the 17th century.
- The Holy Sonnet X
• Henry Vaughan- Anglo-Welsh poet and mystic remarkable for the
range and intensity of his spiritual intuitions.
- With the Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished
• Andrew Marvell- english poet whose political reputation
overshadowed that of his poetry until the 20th century.

6. - He is now considered to be one of the best metaphysical poets.
- Upon Appleton House and The garden
• John Cleveland- english poet , the most popular of his time, and then
and in later times the most commonly abused metaphysical poet.
- The Rebel Scot
• Abraham Cowley- poet and essayist who wrote poetry of a fanciful,
decorous nature. He also adapted the Pindaric ode to English verse.
- In his adolescence he wrote verse (Poeticall Blossomes, 1633, 1636, 1637)
• George Herbert- English religious poet, a major metaphysical poet,
notable for the purity and effectiveness of his choice of words.
-Some of his poems, such as “The Altar” and “Easter Wings,” are
“pattern” poems

7. • Richard Crashaw-English poet known for religious verse of vibrant stylistic
ornamentation and ardent faith.
- he published Epigrammatum Sacrorum Liber (“A Book of Sacred Epigrams”),
a collection of Latin verse on scriptural subjects.
2. Cavalier poet, any of a group of English gentlemen poets,
called Cavaliers because of their loyalty to Charles I (1625–49) during
the English Civil Wars, as opposed to Roundheads, who supported Parliament.
• Richard Lovelace- English poet, soldier, and Royalist whose graceful lyrics
and dashing career made him the prototype of the perfect Cavalier.
-he wrote The Scholars, a comedy acted at Whitefriars, of which the prologue
and epilogue survive.
• Thomas Carew-English poet and first of the Cavalier song writers.
-His longest poem was the sensuous Rapture, but his lyrics are among the most
complex and thoughtful of any produced by the Cavalier poets.

8. • Sir John Suckling- English Cavalier poet, dramatist, and courtier, best
known for his lyrics.
-His masterpiece is undoubtedly “A Ballad Upon a Wedding,” in the
style and metre of the contemporary street ballad
• Edmund Waller-English poet whose adoption of smooth, regular
versification prepared the way for the heroic couplet’s emergence by
the end of the century as the dominant form of poetic expression.
-Several of Waller’s poems, including “Go, lovely Rose!”—one of the
most famous lyric poems in English literature—had circulated for some
20 years before the appearance of his Poems in 1645.
• Robert HerrickEnglish cleric and poet, the most original of the “sons
of Ben [Jonson],” who revived the spirit of the ancient classic lyric.
He is best remembered for the line “Gather ye rosebuds while ye
may,” and he is counted among the Cavalier poets.

9. 3. The School of Spenserian-also known as the followers
of Edmund Spenser.
Edmund Spenser-English poet whose long allegorical
poem The Faerie Queene is one of the greatest in the
English language. It was written in what came to be called
the Spenserian stanza.
Commonwealth Period 1649-1660
-Rise of puritanism, no monarchy in england
-Oliver Cromwell a puritan leader died in 1658 and his
son Richard Campbell became the ruler of England.

10. Age of dryden or the age of restoration 1660-1700
• 2nd half of 17th century
• John Dryden was the representative writer or the
trend center of this period
• Restoration of king Charles II to the english throne
3 Historical events
-restoration of Charles II to the throne
-the religious and political controversies
-the glorious revolution of 1688