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Literature of the English Restoration offers the example of a number of writers who wrote for a courtly audience: literary production, particularly in learned imitation of classical models, was part of the court culture of King Charles II. The fact of a shared model explains the remarkable similarities between “The Imperfect Enjoyment” by the Earl of Rochester and “The Disappointment” by Aphra Behn—remarkable only because readers are surprised to read one poem about male sexual impotence from the late seventeenth century, let alone two examples of this genre by well-known courtly writers. In fact, Richard Quaintance presents ten more examples by lesser-known poets as he defines the literary sub-genre of the neo-Classical “imperfect

        The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries were distinguished times, in which new thoughts and great legends were being born and Europe was changing. People were seeing their world in a new, dazzling light. Humanity's greatest writers, scientists, and composers were beginning to share their gifts. However, underneath these artistic overtones were the political changes, too. There was a New World out there, and its potential was undefined and many countries overlooked its capabilities. England, on the other hand, had placed its foot firmly into the foundation of the New World, and the footprint left behind influenced both the countries' possibilities, and the artists' works.

Moliere’s Tartuffe, and Voltaire’s Candide are each exemplary literary works of the 18th century in their own rights. Tartuffe is a satirical comedy, and Candide a thought-provoking travelogue. While each adheres austerely to its genre, various similarities as well as contrasting differences

Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and John Henry Newman were all great poets of the Victorian Era. Though all three of these poets were successful and well known, they did have their differences. This paper is going to show the different views each of these poets had on religion. All three of them had different views; some were against the strict religion of the Victorian Era and more open to a relaxed version that would focus more on the body and the spirit and what it wants. Others didn’t have too much of an opinion on them and were open

This book follows the varied military experiences of fourteen German soldiers captured during the campaigns in North Africa and Europe, and then sitting out the remainder of the war as POWs in California. It is a firsthand account of life as a POW at Camp Cooke and the lasting impression it had on the

In seventeenth century Europe there was a revolution that affected the world and continues to almost four hundred years later. This was not a war, or an economic explosion, nor a religious revival, but a revolution in the way that the people of Europe thought, the way they looked at the world. This revolution is known as the Enlightenment. However, this change of thought was not a turning point in all of European society, only in the upper class can the effects be seen in Europe’s philosophes and salons, the enlightened despots, and the books that started to be published. One of the new developments in Europe during the Enlightenment was the introduction of philosophes and salons.

people express their feelings. One of the themes that you often occur in lyrical poems and plays

During the time of World War II, many people in Europe who were not of Hitler’s Aryan race had been held captive in concentration camps that were placed in various spots in his conquered land. Two types of camps were touched upon in the memoir. They were either death camps or working camps. Weinberg wrote this memoir in order to preserve the historical facts of the holocaust and share with others for the generations to come of what he had gone through from the ages twelve to eighteen. Taken captive in 1939, Weinberg had gone through five concentration camps such as Terezin and Birkenau where most of his time was spent and had survived. Although he almost did not survive the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945. In this touching memoir, Boy

(3) In addition to some other pieces of poetry, the Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge are known to have initiated the English Romantic Movement. Published originally in 1798, the initial plan for the book was for two sections, the first with two plays, but later it was rearranged with an anonymous print beginning with ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’.

Forum 17.4 (Autumn 1976): 3-11. Rpt. in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 101. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Web. 6 July 2015.

Frederick the Great was born at a time of pivotal transformation - transformation who’s effects are still felt today, in Europe and elsewhere. The 18th century is recognized as the time of Enlightenment, marking "mankind's exit from its self-incurred immaturity”. Often referred to as the “Age of Reason”, the Enlightenment emphasized the importance of rationalism in governance and allowed philosophy and the arts to flourish. The Enlightenment set itself against what was perceived to have been the centuries of superstition, ignorance and venality that had followed the fall of the great ancient civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, which were deemed to have exemplified a thirst for rational learning and thought. In the early 1700s, new philosophical principles spread

Holton Westbrook Proff. Hewitt History 102 October 26, 2014 Towards the end of the 18th century the Enlightenment Era was coming to a close and the era of Romanticism was on the rise. Romanticism is defined as; a philosophical, literary, artistic, and musical movement that both clung to the past and reveled in visions of the future.1 With this change in thinking came the change in literature and how it was accepted around the world. The Romanticism era reached its height about 1800 and it lasted until around the year 1850 due to the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial revolution affected much of the Romanticism era.

In the literary `movements' of neo-classicism and romanticism, Voltaire's Candide and Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther represent the literary age in which they were written. In the following composition, textual evidence will be provided to demonstrate how each book accurately represents either the neo-classicism age or the romanticism age. Candide and The Sorrows of Young Werther will be examined separately, and then examined together. After, a discussion about how each age seems to view the nature of man and the significance of moral and spiritual values will be presented. Also, a personal interpretation of the conclusion of each book will be given. Lastly, quotes

Voltaire was a rebellious and radical thinker, whose sharp wit and pointed satire drew the ire of critics who say he disrespected the orthodoxy of church and state, and won the respect of a growing rationalist movement that had emerged out of the public sphere in Europe between the 17th and 18th centuries. Although Voltaire is known today for being a philosophical powerhouse, whose writing is the stuff of legend, for most of his life he only wrote plays, poems, and novels. It wasn’t until he was almost forty in 1733 that he published his first major philosophical work, “Letters Concerning the English Nation.” This was a series of letters that describe the customs, cultures and great men of England, and even though his praise for England, a country “where all the arts are honored and rewarded,” and where one could think “free and nobly without being held back by any servile fear,” may be overblown, they are important nonetheless, because it highlights the virtues that an Enlightened society should strive for. (114) In many ways these were not so much love letters to England, as much as they were a call for the rest of Europe to progress in the rationalist movement that England had set the tone for.

In the first part of the eighteenth century, the ascent of the novel profoundly adjusted the craft of English account. On the other hand, the built up true to life convention influenced the improvement of the novel to a degree not yet completely figured it out. Amid this period, neither one of the forms can be completely comprehended without the other. (Historical Background: The 18th Century)