LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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The Jacobean Age
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The Puritan Age
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The Neo-Classical Period
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Milton’s divorce tracts refer to the four interlinked polemical pamphlets-The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, The Judgment of Martin Bucer, Tetrachordon, and Colasterion-written by John Milton from 1643–1645. They argue for the legitimacy of divorce on grounds of spousal incompatibility.
Detailed explanation-2: -The age in which Milton lived and wrote is known in history as the Puritan age. It was filled with the political and religious strife-the Civil War, the triumph of Puritanism and the Restoration.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first period started from (1600-1660) is called The Puritan Age or the Age of Milton, further divided into the Jacobean and Caroline periods after the rulers James I and Charles I, respectively. Puritanism dominated the seventeenth Century up to 1660, and it may be called the Puritan Age or the Age of Milton.
Detailed explanation-4: -John Milton (1608–1674), most famous for his epic poem “Paradise Lost” in 1667, was an English poet with religious beliefs emphasizing central Puritanical views.