Why is 18th century referred to as the age of prose and reason
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Mathew Arnold called the eighteenth century as the age of prose and reason. He implied no good poetry was written in this century. The eighteenth century was a great period for prose but not for poetry. The prose became simple and comprehensible, and yet modern. The language of poetry was being conventionalised into artificial poetic diction. Verse was used by many poets of that age for the purposes that could be realized through prose.
Pope and his followers give much importance to reason in their modes of thinking and expressing. Reason is a cause of good sense, rationalism, intellect, wit and logic.
Daniel Defoe, John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift were some famous writers of that age.
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