CHRONOLOGY _Seventeenth Century_ ===================================================================== HISTORY | LITERATURE --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 1621. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy | | 1623. Wither's Hymn Book | 1625. Charles I | Parliament dissolved | | 1628. Petition of Right | 1629. Milton's Ode on the Nativity | 1630-1640. King rules without | Parliament. Puritan migration | to New England | 1630-1633. Herbert's poems | | 1632-1637. Milton's Horton poems | 1640. Long Parliament | | 1642. Civil War begins | 1642. Browne's Religio Medici | 1643. Scotch Covenant | | 1643. Press censorship | 1644. Milton's Areopagitica | 1645. Battle of Naseby; | triumph of Puritans | | 1649. Execution of Charles I. | Cavalier migration to Virginia | | 1649-1660. Commonwealth | 1649. Milton's Tenure of Kings | | 1650. Baxter's Saints' Rest. | Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living | | 1651. Hobbes's Leviathan | 1653-1658. Cromwell, Protector | 1653. Walton's Complete Angler | 1658-1660. Richard Cromwell | | 1660. Restoration of Charles II | 1663-1694. Dryden's dramas | (next chapter) | | 1666. Bunyan's Grace Abounding | | 1667. Paradise Lost | | 1674. Death of Milton | | 1678. Pilgrim's Progress published | (written earlier) ===================================================================== * * * * * CHAPTER VIII PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700) THE AGE OF FRENCH INFLUENCE