FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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Medievalism
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Modernism
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Victorianism
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Neoclassicism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Neoclassicism dominated English literature from the Restoration in 1660 until the end of the eighteenth century, when Wordsworth and Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads (1798), marking the complete birth of Romanticism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1689), which corresponds to the last years of Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
Detailed explanation-3: -Popular writers of Restoration comedy include John Dryden, George Etherege, and William Congreve. Although Restoration literature is commonly considered to end around 1688, Restoration comedy was written into the 1700s.
Detailed explanation-4: -The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Daniel Defoe’s 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Restoration and 18th century was a time of standardization of the English language. During the Elizabethan Age, Shakespeare created new words and new expressions, and spelling was erratic. During the early 17th century, the metaphysical poets created elaborate, unusual metaphors.