The British nation a history / by George MWrong . John Wesley (1703-1791). Literature inEngland. 490 THE BRITISH NATION. (\\\ John Milton (1008-1674) could invite comparison with the best classical great jjoem, Paradise Lost, was written avow-edly to justify the ways of Godto men. Jolm Bunyans Pil-grims Progress is tlic workof an unlettered man in thesimple language of the people, it is literature of the bestkind, and he and Milton, writ-ing in tlie same period, express,each in his own way, the deepreligious spirit that marked theseventeenth century. JeremyTaylor and Rich
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . John Wesley (1703-1791). Literature inEngland. 490 THE BRITISH NATION. (\\\ John Milton (1008-1674) could invite comparison with the best classical great jjoem, Paradise Lost, was written avow-edly to justify the ways of Godto men. Jolm Bunyans Pil-grims Progress is tlic workof an unlettered man in thesimple language of the people, it is literature of the bestkind, and he and Milton, writ-ing in tlie same period, express,each in his own way, the deepreligious spirit that marked theseventeenth century. JeremyTaylor and Richard Baxter,also contemporaries, deal withsimilar high themes. But inthat age not all who could write were pondering the waysof God. The age of Charles II was marked by reactionagainst Puritan ideals, and the court circle, though pol-ished, was cynical and dissolute. The drama, discouragedunder the Puritan regime^ revived,but the old plays of the age ofShakespeare no longer appealedto the prevailing taste ; not trag-edy, but comedy, flourished, andit was on the French model, de-picting scenes from higher societyin i
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