LATER ELIZABETHAN WRITERS. TABLE VII. THE PURITAN PERIOD, cir. 1637-1674-continued. Wm. Browne, 1590-1645. Joseph Hall, 1574-1656. Francis Quarles, 1592-1644. Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-1682. Wm. Habington, 1605-1654. Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661. "History of the Holy War," 1639-1651. "The Church History of Britain," 1655. Jeremy Taylor, 1613-1667. "The Liberty of Prophesying," 1647. "Holy Living," 1650. "Holy Dying," 1651. Samuel Butler, 1612-1680. "Hudibras," 1663-1678. Richard Crashaw, 1613-1650 (?). "Steps to the Temple," 1646. Poems. Henry Vaughan, 1622-1695 (?). Sacred poems. NOTES AND REFERENCES. 1. History.-S. R. Gardiner's series of Histories cover this period. Masson's "Life and Times of Milton "; Macaulay's History of England." 66 2. Literature. For admirable review of state of literature in 1630, see Masson's Life, etc., supra, vol. i. chap. vi.; Saintsbury's "Seventeenth Century Lyrics"; Saintsbury's "Elizabethan Literature"; Minto's Eng. Poets. Palgrave's "Chrysomela," a selection from lyrical poems of Herrick, is suitable for school use. 3. Milton.-Lives: Garnett's, in Great Writers Series, Pattison's, in Eng. Men of Letters Series; Milton, in Johnson's "Lives of the Poets "; Masson's "Three Devils, and Other Essays," Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's. The essay in same volume on the youth of Milton contains interesting comparison between Milton and Shakespeare. Essay on Milton in Seeley's" Lectures and Essays "; Stopford Brooke's "Milton in Student's Library Series; Macaulay's Essay on Milton. THE FRENCH INFLUENCE. 1660 to cir. 1750. THE ENGLAND OF THE RESTORATION. Changes at the THE Restoration is one of the great landmarks in the history of England. It means more than a change in government; it means the beginning of a new England, in life, in thought, and in Restoration. literature. On every side we find outward signs of the nation's different mood. The theatres were reopened, and frivolous crowds applauded a new kind of drama, light, witty, and immoral. The Maypoles were set up again, bear baiting revived, the Puritan Sabbath disregarded. The king had come to enjoy his own again, and thousands who had grown restive under Puritanic restraints flung aside all decency to recklessly enjoy it with him. Those whom the Puritan had overthrown were again uppermost, and they knew no moderation in the hour of their triumph. The cause and faith of Cromwell and of Milton were loaded with insult and contempt, and the snuffling Puritan was baited and ridiculed, as in the clever but vulgar doggerel of Butler's Hudibras. Had Cromwell lived, or had England remained a Puritan. Commonwealth, the spirit which produced Withers, Milton, and Bunyan, might have continued to enrich the literature; but with the return of Charles II. we pass abruptly into a new literary period expressive of the nation's altered mood. |