RESTORATI ON PERIOD

-       Charles II came to throne

-       Monarchy was restored.

-       Puritan ideal were broken

-       Strict Moral and discipline were defeated

-       New Frivolity, looseness, foppery were introduced, writer and poets started to

-       Imitate French – their vices, instead of Shakespeare and Elizabethan.

-       Later, Realism, preciseness and argumentative style was introduced.

-       Couplet, intellectual satires were introduced.

-       Simple language was introduced at 1^st for vices rather than virtues later on simple language for wholesome realism.

DRYDEN

-       Supreme master of Restoration poetry.

-       He used Satirical and realistic, heroic couplet

-       He emancipated poetry from false taste and artificial style of metaphysical writers who used conceits and exaggeration.

-       He laid the foundation of classical school of thought.

-       Formalism, intellectual precision, argumentative skill, realism were introduced.

-       Reason in verse started to be used.