“The Restoration comedy of manners reached its fullest expression in  The Way of the World  (1700) by William Congreve, which is dominated by a brilliantly witty couple.” The themes of the Restoration comedy of manners are love, marriage, adulterous relationships amours and legacy conflicts; and the characters…

The poem “The Chimney Sweeper” is set against the dark background of child labour, a crude horror of the Industrial Revolution that was well known in England in the late 18 th century. The poems (Chimney Sweeper in innocence and Experience) are meant to convey two different views of human life, the view of …