Restoration Literature; Critical Approaches

Aeneas Aeneid allusion argument Artemisa attack audience Augustan Aureng-Zebe baroque Boileau's Burnet Butler century character claim Congreve Country Wife critical D'avenant D'avenant's defence Dido dramatic dramatists Dryden effect English epic essay example expressed extravagant rake felicity genre Halifax hero heroic couplet heroic play Horace Hudibras humour ideas imagination Imitation John John Dryden Jonson judgement Juvenal kind King lady lampoon language Latin less libertine lines literary literature London Love MacFlecknoe manner masque Milton moral Mulgrave nature Oldham Oxford Paradise Lost passage perhaps Persius Pindarique poem poet poetic poetry political Professor Knights prose reader Restoration comedy rhetorical Rochester Rochester's Satan satire satirist Satyr scene seems sense sentence Shadwell Siege of Rhodes Soul spirit stage style theatre theatrical theme things thought tion tradition Traherne Traherne's translation Tunbridge verse Vertue Virgil Virgilian visual whole William words writing