Restoration Literature: An Anthology Book

	Introduction
	Note on the Texts
	Select Bibliography
	Chronology
1	From Paradise Lost, Book II	3
2	From The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England and The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon	7
a	The State of the Nation on the Eve of the Civil War	7
b	The Character of Charles I	11
c	The Death and Character of Oliver Cromwell	13
3	The Return of Charles II: from the Diary	18
4	The Return of Charles II: from the Diary	22
5	Astraea Redux: A Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second	23
6	From Last Instructions to a Painter	32
7	A Satire on Charles II	38
8	Absalom and Achitophel	40
9	Two Attacks on Titus Oates	67
a	A Hue and Cry after Dr. T.O.	67
b	Strange and Wonderful News from Southwark	69
10	The Character of Charles II: from the Diary	72
11	Tarquin and Tullia	73
12	From The Works of Virgil	77
a	The Death of Priam	78
b	A Vision of the Future of Rome	80
13	From Paradise Lost, Book IX	83
14	From The Country Wife	84
15	A Satire in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal	88
16	A Letter from Artemisa in the Town to Chloe in the Country	101
17	To the Postboy	108
18	Regime de vivre	108
19	A Satirical Flash	109
20	Vanity Fair: from The Pilgrim's Progress	111
21	The Fire of London: from the Diary	119
22	The Fire of London: from Annus Mirabilis	129
23	A Country Life	144
24	From Horace, 'Epode II'	146
25	The Country Mouse	149
26	The Garden	152
27	In Imitation of Horace, Ode IX, Lib. I	154
28	From The Georgics, Book II	156
29	To My Honoured Kinsman John Driden of Chesterton	161
30	From Paradise Lost, Book III	167
31	On Mr. Milton's 'Paradise Lost'	169
32	A Letter from the Country to a Friend in Town, Giving an Account of the Author's Inclinations to Poetry	170
33	To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	177
34	An Allusion to Horace	178
35	An Elegy on the Earl of Rochester	181
36	The Miseries of Visits	184
37	A Critique of Shakespeare	185
38	A Critique of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries	187
39	A Critique of Shakespeare and Jonson	189
a	From Of Dramatic Poesy: An Essay	189
b	Epilogue to The Second Part of The Conquest of Granada	191
c	From The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy	192
40	Preface to The Sullen Lovers	196
41	Mac Flecknoe	200
42	Doeg and Og: from The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel	206
43	To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, on his Comedy called 'The Double-Dealer'	209
44	Ten Prologues and Epilogues	211
a	'Epilogue to Tyrannic Love'	212
b	'Prologue to Marriage A-la-Mode'	213
c	'Epilogue to The Parson's Wedding'	214
d	'Prologue to The Double Marriage'	215
e	'Prologue to The Ordinary'	216
f	'Epilogue to The Man of Mode'	217
g	'Epilogue to Sir Patient Fancy'	219
h	'Prologue to Fools have Fortune'	220
i	'Prologue to The City Heiress'	221
j	'Epilogue to King Arthur'	223
45	From The History of the Royal Society of London	224
46	From Paradise Lost, Book IV	231
47	A Virgin Life	233
48	On Rosania's Apostasy and Lucasia's Friendship	234
49	Lucasia, Rosania, and Orinda parting at a Fountain, July 1663	235
50	Orinda to Lucasia	236
51	The Death of Nisus and Euryalus, from Virgil, Aeneid IX	237
52	From Secret Love	248
53	The Mistress: A Song	250
54	Against Constancy	251
55	Upon his Leaving his Mistress	252
56	Song ('Absent from thee ...')	253
57	Love and Life: A Song	253
58	A Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient Lover	254
59	Song ('Love a woman!')	255
60	The Fall: A Song	255
61	The Imperfect Enjoyment	256
62	Song ('Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay')	258
63	To a Lady, in a Letter	259
64	The Disappointment	260
65	Pepy's Sexual Adventures: from the Diary	265
66	Sigismonda and Guiscardo	270
67	From All for Love	290
68	Said by a Young Lady to her Child, Taking Something to Destroy it	297
69	To my Children	298
70	Baucis and Philemon	313
71	From Paradise Lost, Book XII	319
72	From The Third Century	322
73	The Pilgrim's Hymn	335
74	From The Affections of My Soul	336
75	My Life	338
76	From A Narrative of God's Gracious Dealings	339
77	From The Hind and the Panther	353
78	From The Indian Emperor	353
79	Horace: Odes III. xxix	358
80	From Aureng-Zebe	361
81	Lucretius: Against the Fear of Death	362
82	A Kind of Translation	370
83	A Satire against Reason and Mankind	371
84	Upon Nothing	378
85	From Seneca, Troades, Act II, Chorus	380
86	From Palamon and Arcite, Book III	381
	Explanatory Notes	385
	Biographical Notes	414
	Glossary	420