2.  What are the chief characteristics of Restoration literature?  Why is this period called the Age of French influence?  What new tendencies were introduced?  What effect did the Royal Society and the study of science have upon English prose?  What is meant by realism? by formalism?

3.  What is meant by the heroic couplet?  Explain why it became the prevailing form of English poetry.  What are its good qualities and its defects?  Name some well-known poems which are written in couplets.  How do Dryden’s couplets compare with Chaucer’s?  Can you explain the difference?

4.  Give a brief account of Dryden’s life.  What are his chief poetical works?  For what new object did he use poetry?  Is satire a poetical subject?  Why is a poetical satire more effective than a satire in prose?  What was Dryden’s contribution to English prose?  What influence did he exert on our literature?

5.  What is Butler’s Hudibras?  Explain its popularity.  Read a passage and comment upon it, first, as satire; second, as a description of the Puritans.  Is Hudibras poetry?  Why?

6.  Name the philosophers and political economists of this period.  Can you explain why Hobbes should call his work Leviathan?  What important American documents show the influence of Locke?

7.  Tell briefly the story of Pepys and his Diary.  What light does the latter throw on the life of the age?  Is the Diary a work of literature?  Why?

CHRONOLOGY
Last Half of the Seventeenth Century
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HISTORY | LITERATURE
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1649.  Execution of Charles I |
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1649-1660.  Commonwealth | 1651.  Hobbes’s Leviathan
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1660.  Restoration of Charles II | 1660-1669, Pepys’s Diary
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| 1662.  Royal Society founded
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| 1663.  Butler’s Hudibras
1665-1666.  Plague and Fire of London |
War with Holland |
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1667.  Dutch fleet in the Thames | 1667.  Milton’s Paradise Lost.
| Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis
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| 1663-1694.  Dryden’s dramas
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| 1671.  Paradise Regained
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| 1678.  Pilgrim’s Progress
| published
1680.  Rise of Whigs and Tories |
| 1681.  Dryden’s Absalom and
| Achitophel
1685.  James II |
Monmouth’s Rebellion |
| 1687.  Newton’s Principia
| proves the law of
| gravitation
1688.  English Revolution, William of |
Orange called to throne |
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1689.  Bill of Rights.  Toleration Act |
| 1690.  Locke’s Human
| Understanding
| 1698.  Jeremy Collier attacks
| stage
| 1700.  Death of Dryden
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