EXAM - English literature 2
Andrewes:
12. The baroque style as the embodiment of the Restoration ethos
Baroque was to prove to be the ideal style to reflect what was deeply broken society, one that was to remain
in political and religious turbulence until the II half of 18th C. It always portrayed precisely that scenario:
forces in conflict, opposites and extremes confronting, and at the same time, seen to be manifestations of an
ordered whole. Role: to give the thruths of the sphere of heaven (fixed, immovable and permanent). Art of
Baroque: flux and paradox, illusion and seeming, searching for eternal thruths. Vehicle for new and very
emotional piety of Counter-Reformation Catholicism, ideal to express absolute monarchy. It was expensive
style, although its role was to give an aura of divinity and autocracy on Charles II, couldn’t hide that he
was kept in power by the will of Parliament.
13. Restoration poetry (Rochester, Sackville, Sedley, Dryden)
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