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English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History

CHAPTER XXI
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Absalom and Achitophel.

The Death of Charles.

Dryden's Conversion.

Dryden's Fall.
His Odes.
THE COURT OF CHARLES II.
The antithetic literature which takes its coloring from the great rebellion, was now to give place to new forms not immediately connected with it, but incident to the Restoration.

Puritanism was now to be oppressed, and the country was to be governed, under a show of constitutional right, more arbitrarily than ever before.


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