ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Up to 1660, Puritanism dominated the 17th Century. John Milton was the greatest representative of the Puritan spirit. The Puritan movement in literature is also called the second Renaissance because of the revival of man’s moral nature.

Detailed explanation-2: -Puritanism, a religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery” that the Puritans claimed had been retained after the religious settlement reached early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Puritan Movement may be regarded as a second Renaissance, a rebirth of the moral nature of man following the first Renaissance, intellectual awakening of Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Puritanism became a political as well as a moral and religious force.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Puritan age is named after the rise of the Puritan movement in England in the 17th century. Puritans, were a group of English speaking Protestants who were dissatisfied with the religious reformation movement carried out during the reign of queen Elizabeth.

Detailed explanation-5: -From about 1500 to 1600 the world was reborn in many ways. The Renaissance began in Italy, especially in art and architecture, in the fifteenth century. As England became the most powerful nation in Europe in the late sixteenth century, new worlds were discovered and new ways of seeing and thinking developed.