LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:6 June 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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The Literature Tendencies of the Restoration Age in
the Perspectives of John Dryden and Robert Burns

Dr. Roshni Duhan, Ph.D. (Law), M.A. (English)

Abstract

The Restoration Age is probably one of the most interesting and important, if not one of the richest, periods in the history of English literature. Though not marked by an exuberant growth of drama as the Elizabethan Age, of poetry as the Romantic Age, or of Criticism as the modern Age, the Restoration Age remains a very important and interesting period for the student of literature because it gave birth to modern English prose and because it marks the birth of modern English criticism formulated on the classical dogma of the ancients. It is important because it witnessed the birth and growth of many important literary movements, of many new species of literature in the field of poetry and drama, because it innovated and perfected many forms of literary expression. If we make a careful perusal of the history of English literature and of the social and political trends we come to know that a change began to come over the spirit of English literature about the middle of the seventeenth century which was not due to any fluctuations in literary fashion but was deep rooted in the life of the time.

Keywords: Restoration Age, Romantic movement, Scottish Diaspora, Restoration drama

Introduction

The Age of Renaissance was an age of expansion – spiritual and material. For the first time Englishmen realized their national solidarity. Emancipated from continental struggles, their loyalty to the queen, their pride in the country and their delight in country’s past are reflected in the Faerie Queene and historical dramas of Marlowe and Shakespeare. But the emotional excitement and zeal could not be sustained for long and its splendid exuberance had degenerated into extravagance and violence in the early years of the seventeenth century. The drama was in more critical state than poetry.

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