give an estimate of the development of prose during victorian period
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The Jacobean Age is a great period of prose writing. The prose writing of this period is highly ornamented, complex and intricate. In other words. it is highly pithy and epigrammatic. But it is increasingly used for practically all purposes for which prose can be used. The tendency towards simplicity and clarity is well marked..It is fast acquiring greater flexibility and realism. In the carly 17th century, the essayists show a clear understanding of the principles of prose and The development of English Prose. The prose grows very near to the speech of daily life in the hands of the dramatists. The pamphleteers also play a very significant role in the development of a modern prose-style. Their prose can rise to the heights of eloquence. It appeals to the imagination and emotion. But it can also appeal to the intellect. Before 1600, it was poor. Whereas its rapid development during the early 17th century is remarkable.
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In the Jacobean Age, the most popular exercise of the essayist is the delineation of character. Francis Bacon undoubtedly founds a genre, but he has practically no successors. The character-writers of the early 17th century draw their inspiration from the Greak writer, Theophrastus. They are also indebted to Ben Jonson's theory of humours. On the other hand, Bacon supplies them with the style, concise, pointed and sententious diction. Thus the art of character-writing which remains popular during the greater part of the century is a very strange example of the fusion of various elements. John Earle, Thomas Overbury and George Herbert are the greatest of the writers in this genre. Later in the century, Thomas Fuller is also a remarkable writer of this kind.
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