EXAM - English literature 2
Nature – surce of aesthetic pleasure and scientific enquiry. Nature stands for enduring, general thruths
(opposite to metaphysical), that are always tre everywhere. Nature as collection of eternal thruths best
expressed by ancients, studying natre like studying classics. Wit – quickness and liveliness of mind; also
fancy and magination which needed restraining. Judgement had to tame wit to achieve a sense of decorum
or appropriatness (harmonious union of wit and judgement). The „closed” heroic couplet. In these 2 lines
possible to attain rhetorical or witty effects by the use of parallelism, balance or antithesis. Alliteration and
assonance could be used to strenghten this effect. Another option: Miltonic blank verse.
Dramatic change in prose style, sought concision and clarity (John Locke’s writings). Analogy for new
style mathematics. Former complexity (typical to the Restoration wits and scholars) gave way to more
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