Biography of two english writers 1700s

The 17th-century was a time of upheaval and change in Europe, and this was reflected in the literature of the time.

The best 17th-century writers captured the spirit of the Renaissance, which was still roaring through Europe.

In England the so-called Jacobean era was still in full flame with the plays of some of the greatest writers the world had ever known – still regarded as the greatest of all time – playwrights William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Webster and Thomas Kydd, and the poems of John Donne and the metaphysical poets, with great literature expanding into the second half of the century, now labelled as the Caroline, the Interregnum and the Restoration periods, with poets like John Milton and John Dryden.

The plays and poems were accompanied by a proliferation of prose works with experiments that led to the literary form that is most popular and prevalent in the twenty-first century, the novel.

As a genre, the novel was still in its infancy, but it was beginning to f