Restoration Poets and Their Significance

In the years between 1660 and 1700 much upheaval took place in English politics. To mirror this rising on the artistic scene were the Restoration Poets – Dryden, Milton, Bunyan, Marvell, D’Avennat, Cowley …. are but a select few from this momentous movement in our Poetical History. Poets of courage, ambition and vigour, with the strength of words and vision to record for history this tumultuous phase.