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S. M. Du Pré. PERIOD VI RESTORATION TO AGE OF POPE Restoration period - Its characteristics - Butler - Dryden and his con- temporaries - Historical and philosophical works - Bunyan - Walton- Drama . AT the Restoration , when Charles II ...
S. M. Du Pré. PERIOD VI RESTORATION TO AGE OF POPE Restoration period - Its characteristics - Butler - Dryden and his con- temporaries - Historical and philosophical works - Bunyan - Walton- Drama . AT the Restoration , when Charles II ...
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... Restoration period did confer a great benefit on literature . John Dryden , the greatest of the Restoration poets , illustrates all these special characteristics . His life is not a very eventful one , though he lived through some ...
... Restoration period did confer a great benefit on literature . John Dryden , the greatest of the Restoration poets , illustrates all these special characteristics . His life is not a very eventful one , though he lived through some ...
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... Restoration , and of its change of tone . The French drama became the model for tragedy , and a style adopted which was quite alien to the national dramatic genius and taste , and tended to deteriorate into bombastic rant . Dryden's ...
... Restoration , and of its change of tone . The French drama became the model for tragedy , and a style adopted which was quite alien to the national dramatic genius and taste , and tended to deteriorate into bombastic rant . Dryden's ...
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