Tag: ageofreason

• Augustan Literature

  

  Embodying major ideas such as scepticism upon the monarchy, the pursuit of scientific knowledge through reason, and accepting each person as an individual, the Age of Enlightenment which occupied the better part of the 17th and 18th centuries was a period of intellectual and cultural growth in Europe that gave birth to writers and poets…

  Bornaith

  14 September 2024

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