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\nA Critical History of  glish  Lierature  \nIN TWo VOLUMES  \nVOLUME II  \nMandarin  \nA Mandarin Paperback  \nA CBITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATUBE  \nFirst published in Great Britain 1960by Martin Secker&Warburg LimitedRevised edition published 1969This edition published 1994by Mandarin Paperbacksan imprint of Reed International Books LtdMichelin House,81 Fulham Road,London SW36RBand Auckland,Melboume.Singapore and Toronto  \nReprinted 1996(twice).1997  \nCopyright ◎1960 byTHE RONALD PRESS COMPANYAll rights reserved  \nNew matter Copyright 1969 ◎by David DaichesThe author has asserted his moral rights  \nA CIP catalogue record for this titleis available from the British LibraryISBN 0749318945  \nPrinted and bound in Great Britainby Cox&Wyman Ltd,Reading.Berkshire  \nThis book is sold subject to the conditionthat it shall not,by way of trade or otherwise,be lent,resold,hired out,or otherwise circulatedwithout the publisher's prior consent in any formof binding or cover other than that in whichit is published and without a similar conditionincluding this condition being imposedon the subsequent purchaser.  \nContents  \nVOLUME II  \nCHAPTERPAGE15 THE RESTORATION.   .   .   53716 THE AucUSTAN AGE:DEFOE,SwIFT,PoPE.   .   .   59017 PoETRY FROM THOMSON TO CRABBE  .   .   .   .   65218 THE NoVEL FROM RICHARDSON TO JANE AUSTEN.  .  70019 EICHTEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHICAL,HrSTORICAL ANDCRITICAL PROSE,AND MISCELLANEOUs WRITING       76620 ScoTTISH LITERATURE FROM ALLAN RAMSAY TO WALTERScoTT80921 THE RoMANTIC PoETS I:BLAKE,WoRDSWORTH,ANDCoLERIDGE85622 THE RoMANTIC PoETS II:SHELLEY,KEATS,AND BYRON 90523 FAMILIAR,CRITICAL,AND MISCELLANEOUs PROSE OF THEEARLY AND MIDDLE NINETEENTH CENTURY93524 ViCTORIAN PROSE:JoHN HENRY NEWMAN To WILLIAMMORRIS  .       ..      96125 THE ViCTORIAN PoETS.   .              .   .  99326 THE ViCTORIAN NoVEL.      .   .      .     104927 DRAMA FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTHCENTURY.       ,109428 TWENTIETH-CENTURY PoETRY       .  .   .112229 THE TwENTIETH-CENTURY NoVEL .   .      .1152INDEX  .        ..   .   .   .   .  1179  \nCHAPTER  \nA C K O W L E D G E ME N T S  \nThe publishers wish to thank the following for their permission toquote copyright material in this revised edition:J.M.Dent &SonsLtd and the Trustees for the Copyrights of the late Dylan Thomasfor three extracts from the Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas;Faberand Faber Ltd for extracts from the Collected Poems of Louis Mac-Neice,the Collected Poems of Edwin Muir,The Sense of Movementand My Sad Captains by Thom Gunn,Lupercal and The Hawk inthe Rain by Ted Hughes;Mr M.B.Yeats and Macmillan &Co.forextracts from the Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats;Mr Robert Gravesand Cassell &Co.for extracts from Collected Poems 1959.  \nThe Restoration  \nTnE PURITAN EXPERIMENT in government did not long surviveCromwell's death in 1658;less than two years later-in May,1660一Charles II returned from exile amid popular acclamation.\"Theshouting and joy expressed by all is past imagination,\"recorded thediarist Samuel Pepys,and though,as one of those who went over toHolland to escort the King back,he cannot be considered a whollyimpartial witness,there can be no doubt that a majority of the nationwas weary both of the rigors of Puritan rule and of the instability ingovernment that followed Cromwell's death.There remained,astime was to show,a strong Puritan core in England,but for the mo-ment monarchist sentiment was in the ascendant,and the Cavalierscame back to enjoy an Indian summer until the bad judgment ofCharles'brother and successor,James II,alienated finally the greatProtestant heart of the country and so brought about the “GloriousRevolution”of 1688 and the accession of a king and queen not bydivine right but on Parliament's terms.There was a strong tradition-alist element in England which had never reconciled itself t","cbCaicJw7Sqt4Mau","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicJw7Sqt4Mau","pdf",76133846,347,"English","# Contents\n## Volume II\n## Chapter List\n### The Restoration\n### The Augustan Age: Defoe, Swift, Pope\n### Poetry from Thomson to Crabbe\n### The Novel from Richardson to Jane Austen\n### Eighteenth-Century Philosophical, Historical and Critical Prose, and Miscellaneous Writing\n### Scottish Literature from Allan Ramsay to Walter Scott\n### The Romantic Poets I: Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge\n### The Romantic Poets II: Shelley, Keats, and Byron\n### Familiar, Critical, and Miscellaneous Prose of the Early and Middle Nineteenth Century\n### Victorian Prose: John Henry Newman to William Morris\n### The Victorian Poets\n### The Victorian Novel\n### Drama from the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century\n### Twentieth-Century Poetry\n### The Twentieth-Century Novel\n### Index","[{\"question\":\"What historical transition sets the stage for the Restoration chapter?\",\"answer\":\"The chapter describes the end of the Puritan experiment after Cromwell’s death and the return of Charles II from exile in 1660, framing it as a 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