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Known as the Age of Reason, the 18th century was an era of relative peace, prosperity & growth. The poetry of this time is characterized on the one hand by urban satire - the rapier genius of Pope, the biting irony of Swift; on the other hand there existed the pastoral poetic world of rural meditation found in Gray's "Elegy," Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village," & the odes of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea… (meer)
Known as the Age of Reason, the 18th century was an era of relative peace, prosperity & growth. The poetry of this time is characterized on the one hand by urban satire - the rapier genius of Pope, the biting irony of Swift; on the other hand there existed the pastoral poetic world of rural meditation found in Gray's "Elegy," Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village," & the odes of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea