LECTURE 1
1- The Literature of the Seventeenth Century may bedivided into……….. period
-two
2- The first period of the 17th C.L. was;
-The Puritan Age or the Age of Milton (1600-1660)
3- The PuritanAge or the Age of Milton(1600-1660) dividedto;
-the Jacobean and Caroline periods
4- The second period of the 17 C.L was;
- the Restoration Period or the Age of Dryden(1660-1700)
5- The Seventeenth Century was marked by ……….of the Renaissancespirit
- the decline
6- One very important and significantfeature of this new spirit of observation and analysis was the popularization of the art of……….
- biography
7- The kind of art that is account of someon'slife , called;
- biography
8- The Seventeenth Century up to 1660 was dominated by……….
- Puritanism
9- The mainconcern of the puritan movement at that time was ;
- liberty of the people from the unjust ruler andintroduce the morality and highideals in politics.
10- The Puritanismaimed at ;
- making menhonest and free
11- Milton and Cromwell were the real………
- champions of liberty and stood for toleration
12- The Puritanism became a……… movement
- national
13- In literature of the Puritanage,………….. was the noblestrepresentative of the Puritanspirit to which he gave a most
lofty and enduringexpression.
-John Milton
14- The puritanpoetry, also called the …………..poetry
-the Jacobean and caroline
15- These are the three parts of the………..
1-Poetry of the school of Spenser.....
2-Poetry of the Metaphysical school......
3-Poetry of the Cavalier......
-the puritanpoetry
16- George Herbert(1593-1633) is the mostwidely read of all poetsbelonging to the metaphysical school because of ;
-the clarity of his expression and the transparency of his conceits
17- ………..was the greatest poet of the Puritan age.
-milton
18- The greatestdramatist of the Jacobean period was……..
-ben Jonson
19- Bacon, Burton, Milton, Sir ThomasBrowne, Jeremy Taylor and Clarendon were The great …….. writers in the Puritan Age.
-prose
20- In Puritan Age , For the first time the greatscholars began to write in…………
-English rather than Latin.