Part 24 (2/2)

+The Leviathan+ (1651), a work on politics and moral philosophy.

Battle of Ivry, 1590.

+1600+

SIR THOMAS BROWNE. +1605-1682+. Physician at Norwich.

+Religio Medici+ (= ”The Religion of a Physician”); +Urn-Burial+; and other prose works.

Australia discovered, 1601.

James I. ascends the throne in 1603.

JOHN MILTON. +1608-1674+. Student; political writer; poet; Foreign (or ”Latin”) Secretary to Cromwell. Became blind from over-work in +1654+.

_Minor Poems_; +Paradise Lost+; +Paradise Regained+; +Samson Agonistes+. Many prose works, the best being +Areopagitica+, a speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing.

Hampton Court Conference for translation of Bible, 1604-11.

Gunpowder Plot, 1605.

+1610+

SAMUEL BUTLER. +1612-1680+. Literary man; secretary to the Earl of Carbery.

+Hudibras+, a mock-heroic poem, written to ridicule the Puritan and Parliamentarian party.

Execution of Raleigh, 1618.

JEREMY TAYLOR. +1613-1667+. English clergyman; Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland.

+Holy Living+ and +Holy Dying+ (1649); and a number of other religious books.

+1620+

JOHN BUNYAN. +1628-1688+. Tinker and traveling preacher.

+The Pilgrim's Progress+ (1678); the +Holy War+; and other religious works.

Charles I. ascends the throne in 1625.

Pet.i.tion of Right, 1628.

+1630+

JOHN DRYDEN. +1631-1700+. Poet-Laureate and Historiographer-Royal; playwright; poet; prose-writer.

+Annus Mirabilis+ (= ”The Wonderful Year,” 1665-66, on the Plague and the Fire of London); +Absalom and Achitophel+ (1681), a poem on political parties; +Hind and Panther+ (1687), a religious poem. He also wrote many plays, some odes and a translation of Virgil's +aeneid+. His prose consists chiefly of prefaces and introductions to his poems.

No Parliament from 1629-40.

Scottish National Covenant, 1638.

+1640+

Long Parliament, 1640-53.

Marston Moor, 1644.

Execution of Charles I., 1649.

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