Literary background By Bucky24 Period: 1625 to 1760 Literary background (1625-1760) Period: 1625 to 1714 Puritan (1625-1660) and Restoration (1660-1714) period 1667 Paradise Lost (1667) MILTON Period: 1714 to 1760 Age of Classicism - Augustan phase (1714-1750) and Pre-Romantic phase (1750-1760) 1719 Robinson Crusoe (1719) DEFOE