Seventeenth-century English Literature

allegory analogies Anglican Arminian Army Baroque Belton House biblical Carew Caroline Catholic century characters Charles Christian Church claimed classical comedy conceits concerned contrast couplets Court Cowley Crashaw create Cromwell Davenant death diction divine Donne Donne's drama Dryden early Elizabethan England English epic essays Exclusion Crisis grace Herbert heroic play humours influenced Interregnum Jacobean James John Jonson Jonsonian King Latin libertine literary literature London Lord Lycidas manner marriage masque meditation metaphors metaphysical Milton moral mystical Neo-Classicism Neo-Platonism odes Paradise Lost Paradise Regain'd Parliament parody pastoral philosophical Platonic love plot poems poet poetry political Presbyterians prose published Puritan reform religious Restoration Restoration comedy rhymed romance Royal Royalist satire scepticism Senecan sentences social society songs sonnets soul stanzaic stanzas style syntax theatre thee themes Thomas thou tion tragedy tragicomedy translation Tyrannick Love verse Waller William William Davenant witty writing written wrote