ENGLISH 3G06 Lecture 4: Rochest Cont' and Dryden
20 Jan 2017
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There is only a small difference b/w humans and animals but there is a significantly great difference b/w degenerate humans and virtuous humans. He is refusing to negotiate the relationship b/w the man and beast. He complicates the things in which he disagrees with. The speaker is not excluded from the critique (ironic move that was popular at the time) Atire (cid:272)o(cid:373)es fro(cid:373) e(cid:448)eryo(cid:374)e"s hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:374)ature (cid:894)(cid:449)e rather tha(cid:374) they(cid:895) Taking an earnest model and adding oppositional view. Most influential poet of the restoration popularized heroic couplet. Wrote a lot of politi(cid:272)al (cid:894)a(cid:374)d o(cid:272)(cid:272)asio(cid:374)al(cid:895) poetry (cid:894)i(cid:374) support of (cid:271)oth cro(cid:373)(cid:449)ell a(cid:374)d charles ii (cid:895), quite popular plays (such as marriage a la mode) and influential literary criticism (on satire, drama, etc. ) Converted to catholicism (quite seasonably?) in 1685/1686) Charles took the throne and he was catholic leaning king. John bunyan (1656): you must receive the divine knowledge from god, himself.
