The Restoration Prose

The Restoration period prose development was incriticism of literary works by Dryden, in production of religious novel by Bunyan, in diary writting and other things. Dryden "Essay on Drammatic poesie compares English French Drama. He has defended the use of rhyme in drama and praised Shakespeare. this prose is important as it is way to a clear reasonable and balanced way of writing English. In this period, it has been drawn that critics are better than poets. Ity is in the form of a dialogue among four friends with classical names including Dryden himself. They discuss the comparative merits of the clissical French, Elizebethan and the English drama. In his "Essay ", he has mentained limitation which the French set themselves by lliad and the obyssey (great epic ) of Homer, brought good popularity

The Restoration Dream

In the Restoration period, dreams appeared in heroic couplets. Men had been described splendidly brave and women were beautiful. these plays had a lot of shouting and a good deal of nonsese. The Restorarion theatre was Patronized by aristocracy. Use of sceneny was different form the Elizabethan dreams. Its scenery was moveble and immoviable projecting the polatfrom stagback. Actresses were real with their girls faces, most old dreams were ceceived with the happy bendings as the age was not ready to accept the tragic end of the chgarecters Romeo and Juliet had happy ending. The Tempest had coarse touches. Great plays, "All for Love", and "Venice Preserved are inferior to those of the Elizabethens. John Dryden wrote "The Conquest of the Granda", Aurengzebe", "All for Love" in heroic couplets, rhyming pair sentences with imabic pentameter. Only a few were acted, although these were strangely unequal with good or bad writing. Poetry of rhymed plays in better, dramatic force of unrhymed plays is strange.

John Milton and Paradise Lost

"Trhe Paradise Lost" was planned to finish in 10 books but complete in 12 books. The scane is of the whole universe, including Heaven and hall. It is in the splended voice and great blank verse. It has been strengthed by his immense learning and ornamentation. It has hundred of remerkable thoughts but in to musical verse. The classic mythology has been used only for comparison and not as part of its substance. First two books are only read. the fall of the man is not inviting story to readers now a days. The domastic theology is out of date. The war between God and his angles seems very ridiculous now. God exples the satsns from the heaven down in to the hall. The leader of the satans wants to take revenge by the temptation to the man created by God. Adam and Eva are forbiden to eat the apples of Eden , the garden. indisguise of a snake lures by the false statement that the apples will make her imortal. Eva eats and Adam also follows her. her defeats God by making the human beings moral.

John Milton and his work

John milton come with popularity after James I and Charles I's reign, during the twenty years parliamentary rule, under cromwell leadership This great literary figure of the Cromwells period had studies at christs college, combridge, anAd after completing his course he settled down in Horton buckingham shire for his individual study instead of profession. he was known as "The Lady of Christ at college because of his personal beauty, flowing hair and prudish aloofness from the riotous life of the undergraduate. He was proud, self centered and humoueless. His poem is composed is the octasyllabic couplets. He wrote Comus, a masque bLycidas is a sarrowful pastoral or an elegy on the death of Edward King when he was on his way nto lreland. He wrote "areopagitica" along withother pamphlets in journalistic period \. Milton is allive in the history of literature for his great poetry : "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained" both are great epic in English litreature.

Jane Austen and her Novel

Thought Jane austen wrote her books in troulded years which included the French revolution her novel are calm pictures of society life. she understood the importance of the family in human affairs and thouight two of her brothers were in the navy1 , she paid, little at tention to the voilence of nation. The little given to her first novel was "Elinor and Marianne", but this was later rewrritten and published as "Sense and Sensibility"2. In 1796 she started First Impression 3, which was later published as "Pride and Prejudice4". Mansfield Park appenared in 1814 and "Emma"1816. Northangar Abbey was begun as a satire on mrs Radcliffe "Myteries of Udolpho, and to show that her show that real life is very different. Jane Austen family is its highest point of perfection. Her works were untouch by the ugliness of the outside wirld, she keep the action to scenes familier to her thought her own experience. Her frist novels were refused by publishers, and she had to wait fifteen or twenty years after beginning to write before any novel was accepted.

Anglo Saxon and his epic Beowulf

Beowulf was an old Anglo Saxon epic composed in 3000 lines. It was the greatest and longest old English poem with heroic adventures and tragic end of the hero. the poem has no rhyme but the aliterative style sounds sweet and beautiful. It was composed during the 7th century. the main theme of poem is sacriface of a great hero of the sake of the Danes. During the reign of the king Horthgar, a great disaster occurred. He had earned name and fame, wealth and prosperity all. He had built a huge dining hall, Herot for his worriors. they buse to rest and sleep there. Grengel . The demon was seriously injured and escaped. He went to the lake and died. Mother saw this death of her son and, in anger, come to kill Beowulf. However, she was also kiled. After the death of Heothgar, he was crowned as the king of the Danes. they respected and honoured him as their great hero. Again, he had to fight with a breathing creature. He kills it, but he is also wounded and dies. There is the beautiful description of the pathetic scene of his funeral fire. All cried and their cry was along with the cracking sound of the fire.

Robbert Greene

Whose story Pandosto gave Shakespeare the plot of his play "The Winters Tale" Another, Thomas Nasha writer of very indeapendent charecter refused to copy Euphues or anyone else his book. "The life of jacke Wilton" was a paciresque about that are best beloved and they liked best whom we have know longest. This kind of style of common in the conversation of ladies of the time. and most of those at court were at one timely pupils. Queen Elizabethan herself used it. Every girl of good family in those days learnt speak, not only French, but also Euphuism. Even Shakespeare was influenced by this artifical style.