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ISBN-13:
9780199555192

Publication date:
July 2009

Imprint: OUP UK

Restoration Literature

An Anthology

Edited by Paul Hammond

Series : Oxford World's Classics

When our great monarch into exile went,
Wit and religion suffered banishment...
At length the Muses stand restored again
To that great charge which Nature did ordain.

In these lines Dryden represents the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 as the restoration, too, of literary culture. If wit had been banished along with the exiled Charles, his return marked a flowering of a rich variety of genres after the turbulent years of the civil war and republic. This anthology brings together a stimulating and entertaining collection of works from this confident and creative period - a literature which is by turns refined, poignant, and brash. Alongside major works such as Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel and Mac Flecknoe, printed in their entirety, is a substantial group of lyrics by Rochester, while Milton's Paradise Lost provides a running commentary on the Restoration scene. Scurrilous satires and pamphlets, diaries, theatrical prologues, translations and striking work by women poets and autobiographers illustrate the period in politics, religion, philosophy and in attitudes to town and country, love and friendship.

Anonymous works sit side by side with the great names - Marvell, Wycherley, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys - while several poems are printed from manuscript sources for the first time, allowing us to hear new voices from a period famous for producing a thoroughly uninhibited literature.

Readership : Suitable for readers and students of seventeenth and eighteenth century English literature, Restoration literature and history, and Restoration drama and poetry.

Introduction
Note on the Texts
Select Bibliography
Chronology
Politics and Nation
1. John Milton: From Paradise Lost, Book II
2. Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon: From The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars inEngland and The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon
a) The State of the Nation on the EVe of the Civil War
b) The Character of Charles I
c) The Death and Character of Oliver Cromwell
3. Samuel Pepys: The Return of Charles II from the Diary
4. John Evelyn: The Return of Charles II from the Diary
5. John Dryden: Astraea Redux: A Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second
6. Andrew Marvell: From Last Instructions to a Painter
7. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: A Satire on Charles II
8. John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel
9. Anonymous: Two Attacks on Titus Oates
a) A Hue and Cry after Dr. T.O.
b) Strange and Wonderful News from Southwark
10. John Evelyn: The Character of Charles II from the Diary
11. Arthur Mainwaring: Tarquin and Tullia
12. John Dryden: From The Works of Virgil
a) The Death of Priam
b) A Vision of the Future of Rome
Town and Country
13. John Milton: From Paradise Lost, Book IX
14. William Wycherley: From The Coutnry Wife
15. John Oldham: A Satire in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal
16. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: A Letter from Artemisa in the Town to Chloe in the Country
17. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: To the Postboy
18. Anonymous: Regime de vivre
19. Sir Philip Wodehouse: A Satirical Flash
20. John Bunyan: Vanity Fair from The Pilgrim's Progress
21. Samuel Pepys: The Fire of London from the Diary
22. John Dryden: The Fire of London from Annus Mirabilis
23. Katherine Philips: A Country Life
24. John Dryden: From Horace, 'Epode II'
25. Abraham Cowley: The Country Mouse
26. Andrew Marvell: The Garden
27. William Congreve: In Imitation of Horace, Ode IX, Lib. I
28. John Dryden: From The Georgics, Book II
29. John Dryden: To My Honoured Kinsman John Driden of Chesterton
Literature and Theatre
30. John Milton: From Paradise Lost, Book III
31. Andrew Marvell: On Mr. Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
32. John Oldham: A Letter from the Country to a Friend in Town, Giving an Account of the Author's Inclinations to Poetry
33. John Dryden: To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
34. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: An Allusion to Horace
35. Anne Wharton: An Elegy on the Earl of Rochester
36. Anonymous: The Miseries of Visits
37. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: A Critique of Shakespeare
38. Richard Flecknoe: A Critique of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
39. John Dryden: A Critique of Shakespeare and Jonson
a) From of Dramatic Poesy: An Essay
b) Epilogue to The Second Part of The Conquest of Granada
c) From The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy
40. Thomas Shadwell: Preface to The Sullen Lovers
41. John Dryden: Mac Flecknoe
42. John Dryden: Doeg and Og from The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel
43. John Dryden: To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, on his Comedy called 'The Double-Dealer'
44. Ten Prologues and Epilogues
45. Thomas Sprat: From The History of the Royal Society of London
Love and Friendship
46. John Milton: From Paradise Lost, Book IV
47. Jane Barker: A Virgin Life
48. Katherine Philips: On Rosania's Apostasy and Lucasia's Friendship
49. Katherine Philips: Lucasia, Rosania, and Orinda parting at a Fountain. July 1663
50. Katherine Philips: Orinda to Lucasia
51. John Dryden: The Death of Nisus and Euryalus, from Virgil, Aeneid IX
52. John Dryden: From Secret Love
53. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Mistress: A Song
54. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Against Constancy
55. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Upon his Leaving his Mistress
56. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Song ('Absent from thee...')
57. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Love and Life: A Song
58. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: A Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient Lover
59. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Song ('Love a woman!')
60. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Fall: A Song
61. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Imperfect Enjoyment
62. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Song ('Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay')
63. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: To a Lady, in a Letter
64. Aphra Behn: The Disappointment
65. Samuel Pepys: Pepys's Sexual Adventures from the Diary
66. John Dryden: Sigismonda and Guiscardo
67. John Dryden: From All for Love
68. Anonymous: Said by a Young Lady to her Child, Taking Something to Destroy it
69. Lucy Hutchinson: To my Children
70. John Dryden: Baucis and Philemon
71. John Milton: From Paradise Lost, Book XII
72. Thomas Traherne: From The Third Century
73. John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's Hymn
74. Richard Langhorne: From the Affections of My Soul
75. Robert James: My Life
76. Hannah Allen: From A Narrative of God's Gracious Dealings
77. John Dryden: From The Hind and the Panther
78. John Dryden: From The Indian Emperor
79. John Dryden: Horace: Odes III. xxix
80. John Dryden: From Aureng-Zebe
81. John Dryden: Lucretius: Against the Fear of Death
82. Sir Philip Wodehouse: A Kind of Translation
83. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: A Satire against Reason and mankind
84. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Upon Nothing
85. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: From Seneca, Troades, Act II, Chorus
86. John Dryden: From Palamon and Arcite, Book III
Explanatory Notes
Biographical Notes
Glossary

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