Restoration Age
Source copied from: http://www.online-literature.com/henry-augustin-beers/from-chaucer-to-tennyson/5/ For Original Visit the above line From the Restoration to the Death of Pope 1660-1744 The Stuart Restoration was a period of descent from poetry to prose, from passion and imagination to wit and the understanding. The serious, exalted mood of the civil war and Commonwealth had spent itself