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lovelydeer
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Write about the age of the reason.

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Posted by lovelydeer on Saturday November 7, 2009 at 3:59 PM and tagged with robinson crusoe, the age of the reason.

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  1. kc4u Teacher
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    The majority of the 18th century, especially its first half is often categorized as 'The Age of Prose and Reason'. The process, one can say is anticipated by the Restoration period post 1660 and culminates in the writers of the 18th century before the Romantics counter it.

    The term emphasises the dominance of rationality (an Enlightenment baggage) in the age where prose-medium flourished a lot more than poetry. The poetry that was written was dominated by a satirical and non-lyrical prose-sense as in the writers like John Dryden and Alexander Pope. This period is known for its Neo-Classical or Augustan spirit of intellectualist rational and in a sense non-imaginative objectivity with the motto being follow the exact reality or 'nature' with prescriptiveness, didacticism and logical precision.

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    Posted by kc4u on Sunday November 8, 2009 at 3:12 AM