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Following are the major ideas in Essay on Man by Alexander Pope :
- a God of infinite wisdom exists; 
- He created a world that is the best of all possible ones; 
- the plenum, or all-embracing whole of the universe, is real and hierarchical;
- authentic good is that of the whole, not of isolated parts;
-self-love and social love both motivate humans' conduct; 
- virtue is attainable;
- ''One truth is clear, WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT.
- ''The Essay on Man appears to be the most beautiful didactic poem, the most useful, the most sublime that has ever been composed in any language.

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John Milton is called 'Epic Poet' and 'A great master of verse in Puritan Period'.
‘Lycidas’ is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy.
Milton’s other great works are the two epics namely –
- ‘Paradise Lost’
- ‘Paradise Regained’

The period between 1625 and 1675 is known as the “Puritan Age”.

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• Jonathan Swift is the greatest satirist of the 18th century.
• His famous books:
- Gulliver's Travels,
- A tale of a Tub,
- A Modest Proposal,
- A Journey to Stella,
- The Battle of the Books.

Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Britannica

Clarissa, in full Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady, epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1747–48.
- Among the longest English novels ever written (more than a million words), the book has secured a place in literary history for its tremendous psychological insight.
- Written in the then fashionable epistolary form, its main body consists of the letters of Clarissa Harlowe and her seducer, Lovelace (though there are many more correspondents throughout the novel).
Other Characters:
- Belford

Samuel Richardson was born 1689 & died in 1761 who was an English writer and printer best known for three epistolary novels:
- Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740),
- Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and
- The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753).

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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
BY THOMAS GRAY

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight,
And all the air a solemn stillness holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;

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The Main theme of the Robinson Crusoe is The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures.
- The moral of the story of Robinson Crusoe is that a person can succeed against all odds with the right combination of hard work, planning, thrift, resourcefulness, and religious faith.

Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731) was an English writer, trader, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.
- Daniel Defoe is best known as the writer of those novel:
- Robinson Crusoe (1719) and
- Moll Flanders (1722).

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”History of life and death” was written by Francis Bacon.

Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England (1618–21), lawyer, statesman, philosopher, and master of the English tongue.
His scientific work:
- The Great Instauration
- Advancement of Learning
- History of Life and Death

His Essays are:
- Of Truth
- Of Death
- Of Atheism
- Of Religious
- Of Marriage and Single Life

Source: An ABC OF English Literature - Dr. M. Mofizar Rahman and Britannica

The Wild Gallant is John Dryden comedy.
- The Indian Emperor & Tyrannick Love Both are tragedies.
- Religio Laici is a poetic work by John Dryden.
- As a poet, Dryden is best known as a satirist and was England's first poet laureate in 1668. In addition to satires, Dryden wrote elegies, prologues, epilogues, odes, and panegyrics.

His most famous poem is Absalom and Achitophel (1681).
- His best known dramatic works are:
- Marriage á la Mode (1672) and
- All for Love (1678), which was written in blank verse.

Source:An ABC OF English Literature - Dr. M. Mofizar Rahman & Britannica.com

Thomas Hobbes is the author of “The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic”.
He was born in 1588 and being called the natural philosopher.

His experience during a time of upheaval in England influenced his thoughts, which he captured in:
- The Elements of Law: Natural and Politic (1640)
- De Cive [On the Citizen] (1642)
- Leviathan (1651).

Source: An ABC OF English Literature - Dr. M. Mofizar Rahman & Britannica.com

The Modern Husband was written by Henry Fielding.
- Jonathan Swift wrote A Tale of The Tub.
- Death of Sir Roger was written by Joseph Addison.
- The True Born Englishman Is the literary work of Daniel Defoe.
Henry Fielding famous novel:
- Tom Jones
- Amelia
- Joseph Andrews.

Source: An ABC OF English Literature - Dr. M. Mofizar Rahman

Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic.
- He is the writer of the Restoration Period.
- His famous satire in verse is Hudibras.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman.

Thomas Grey was the author of the poem “Hymn to Adversity”.
He is famous for Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
He also wrote:
- Ode On a Distant Prospect of Eton College.
- Ode on the death of a favorite cat.
- Ode On the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude.
- Ode On the Spring.
- On the Death of Richard West.
- The Bard.

Source: An ABC OF English Literature - Dr. M. Mofizar Rahman

 Act well your part; there all the honour lies. This line is taken from An Essay on Man(Alexander Pope).
His Famous quotes are:
- “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
- “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”.
- “Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
- “A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
- “What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.”

Source: Sparknotes.com

In John Milton’s “Samson Agonistes” Deliah character is found.
- Delilah, also spelled Dalila, in the Old Testament the central figure of Samson's last love story (Judges 16).
- She was a Philistine who, bribed to entrap Samson, coaxed him into revealing that the secret of his strength was his long hair, whereupon she took advantage of his confidence to betray him to his enemies.
- Her name has since become synonymous with a voluptuous, treacherous woman.

Source: Britannica.com