John Dryden (Poet)

background

• known for humor, lightness, happyness. 
• Well educated and elite in culture
• Poets had poem wars and he participated
• frequently used the "satire" in poetry

Halmark of the restoration time period, is a type of criticism shown through wit.

• Culture change,
• move to a mainly iambic pentameter.  
• Restored a form of government
• humorous verse was first written 

John Dryden (poet)

Famous poems

Mac Flecknoe

Poem:

Mac Flecknoe

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(who, when, summary, structure, importance)

• John Dryden
• 1679
• SATIRE about poet loriet Ben Johnson,  describes his name with SH__ to mean 'shit'
• Rhymed Couplets 
• iambic pentameter verse
• uses triolets which are three rhymes in a row to show a break in thought
• references past poetry such as easter wings and the altar

John Wilmot  (poet)

• Distinguished himself as the person with the most wit and least honor towards england
• constant quarrels and practical jokes towards even his own dad and Dryden 
• used iambic pentameter
• Famous work:  The Disabled Bebauchee

Poem:

The Disabled Debauchee 

(who, when, structure, summary)

• John Wilmot
• 1680
• 12 quatrains with the rhyme scheme ABAB
• iambic pentameter followed
• wilmot was sick and knew he was going to die soon. 
• Sexuality is excplicit and blunt. 

Poet:

Johnathon Swift

• famous poem: A Description Of A City Shower
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(Who, when, Structure, Summary)

• Jonathon Swift
• 1710
• iambic pentameter, one large stanza of 64 lines
• Ryhme is AABB ends in a triolet
• talks of a satire describing horrible city conditions and the poor taking showers

ALexander Pope

(poet)

• was crippled, and was catholic, and a poet:  3 minorities
• he was the first official poet by profession in england
• likes to be alone, not bothered
• was very sick for most of his life and came out in his poetry

An Essay On Man

poem

(who, when, Structure, Summary)

• Alexander Pope
• 1733
• rhyme scheme AABB broken into stanzas about 10-25 lines in length
• significance is to vindicate the ways of God to Man.  like Paradise lost by milton

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

(poem)

(who, when, structure, summary)

• Alexander Pope
• 1735
• very little iambic pentameter AABB form many comma's in the middle of the verses
• large force of nature in his poetry for the time period, generaly says that god is great and human development is bad

The Vanity of Human Wishes

poem

(who, when, structure, summary)

• Samuel Johnson
• 1749
• AABB form 
• Duke of bukingham talks of great individuals that dont end up very well.
• poem ends with people saying how everyone stops paying attention to important aspects of life

Thomas Gray

(poet)