Education of the republic of uzbekistan

MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIAL
EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN


ТЕRMEZ STATE UNIVERSITY


DEPARTMENT OF PHILOLOGY AND TEACHING LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COURSE WORK
on the theme
Literature of the 17th century
DONE BY: the 2nd course student of the English
department of philology and teaching languages
Omonov Azama ____________
SUPERVISOR: _Samatov Farhod _____________


Termez- 2021

Contenet

INTRODUCTION
The period known as the Literature of the 17th century runs from somewhere around 1660, with the Restoration, or the crowning of the exiled Charles II, until the beginning of the 1700s and the reign of Victoria.
This chunk of time, which takes up some of the 17th century and all of the 18th century, is sometimes referred to as the Age of Reason because of its emphasis on a rational, secular worldview. Bringing light to the so-called dark corners of the mind, this century writers such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson , John Milton , John Dreyden and other writers wrote on subjects ranging from romantic plays , dramas, political philosophy to the nature of humankind. Many scholars argue that, given all this revolutionary thinking, the Literature of the 17th century is the beginning of modern Literature in Europe
The period saw lots of revolutionary activity, such as the French Revolution and the American Revolution. Interested in how 17th century literature thinking played a role in the Europe Revolution? Check out our learning guide on just that.Two hundred years of literature - no big deal, right? As you might have guessed, during the 17th and 18th centuries, a whole lot happened in the world of English lit. It would be impossible to cover everything that went down in this intro lesson, but we're going to take a quick tour of the broad movements that defined these two centuries of the written word in the U.K.This is a history of English literature in the seventeenth century. It covers writing in English in England and Wales. Writing in English in
Scotland and Ireland, like new composition in Latin, figures only marginally, where it relates to or illuminates the principal subject.
Literatures produced in the other languages of Britain and Ireland
are not considered, because they are both beyond my remit and
outside my competence.
Other decisions in the selection or omission of texts are less clear-
cut. Those authors who currently are most read and studied receive
most attention. I have added some non-canonical works to throw lighton the mainstream, together with some which, in my view, have
literary merit that has been overlooked. Writers who were once influ-
ential or were otherwise perceived as important in their own day are
generally included, even though they have substantially fallen from the canon. Translation, particularly from the classical languages, was a
significant component of the seventeenth-century experience of literature. Here my treatment is selective and perhaps somewhat arbitrary,
though works which proved influential, like Sylvester’s rendition of Du
Bartas, are included. Dryden’s late, glorious translations seemed too
good and too important a component of his oeuvre to omit. Populist
genres such as ballads or works of popular piety for the most part are
drawn on only as part of the larger cultural context. Writers in other
genres outside those that are typically considered literary appear inter-mittently. Francis Bacon and Thomas Sprat, who have often figured in
critical histories of non-fictional prose, are engaged with in literary
terms; Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, despite their higher status
as thinkers, are not considered, except as influences on or analogues to other writers.

If you, like me, struggle with what '17th century' means as far as what the years actually were, 17th century: 1600s; 18th century: 1700s. I mix those up all the time; let's just put that out there right now.

Basically, this period of English literature can be broken down into three smaller eras, each of which has their own little sub-eras, so take these designations loosely. It's not like they're set in stone, but they're just meant to give a sense of context. So, today we're going to be looking at:
Later literary periods were definitely influenced by the Enlightenment. Nathaniel Hawthorne's Romanticism, for example, was a reaction to the Literature of the 17th century. And the Romantic poets like William Wordsworth, of course, wrote to pooh-pooh the Enlightenment's emphasis on reason.