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the age of

Enlightenment

The ideals of the perfectly rational man were:

self-control

balance

reason

the two forms of the age were: satire and the realistic novel

The classics

Virgil, Horace, Ovid:

Cato :

models of emulation

represented the highest ideals of stoicism

THE FRENCH
Nicolas Boileau, Voltaire, Montesquieu :
who spread the ideas of tolerance, democracy and the contribution to the
Encyclopédie

PROSE

Satire

Journalism

Essay writing
Addison and Steel marked the beginning of essay writing, who grew up thank to work of David Hume and his empiricism.
The greatest satirist was Alexander Pope. Humour and sarcasm were two weapons of satire
The two most important works of the time were: "The Tatler" and "The Spectator".
Richard Steel Joseph Addison
Jonathan Swift
Hatchard's bookshop 1797
Empiricism