3.1 LEARNING OUTCOMES

After reading this chapter, you will be able to:

• Analyze the causes for the Civil War in which Parliamentarians opposed the Royalists.

• Describe the reasons for the Restoration of monarchy in England in 1661.

• Analyze the religious conflicts that led to the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

• Describe the growth of knowledge and reason as sources of individual authority and individual rights.

• Compare Metaphysical poetry with Elizabethan poetry.

• Describe distinguishing features of Classical, Metaphysical, and Cavalier poetry.

• Describe the influence of courtiers and intellectuals on seventeenth-century drama.

• Compare Milton’s epic Paradise Lost with Spenser’s epic The Faerie Queene.