# Restoration and Augustan Age

LED IN

Here's a video depicting the important historical moments of the 17th and 18th centuries and its impact on English literature and a video that introduce the Augustan literature:

HOMEWORK

Answer the following questions:

1. After Charles I exile, what kind of period did England move to? 
2. Which religious ideals characterized that period?
3. The Monarchy was restored in 1660 with Charles II. Form a literature point of view, what was it also the restoration of?
4. What kind of poetry grew up in this period? 
5. What was the most common matter?
6. What was the new topic introduced in prose? And what was its most common genre?
7. What was reinforced during Mary and William's reign?
8. What was the origin of the Hanoverians House?
9. This period is also called The Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. Why?
10. In this period new inventions were born. Give examples.
11. What were the Coffee Houses?
12. What were the consequences of the Industrial Revolution?