Lakhasly

Though manners were coarse The politics scandalously corrupt, and the general tone of society brutal, the England of the early eighteenth century witnessed a resolute attempt in the direction of moral regeneration The desire for improvement is a marked feature of the literature of this half-century, and especially of the literature which emanated from middle-class writers.

Though manners were coarse The politics scandalously corrupt, and the general tone of society brutal, the England of the early eighteenth century witnessed a resolute attempt in the direction of moral regeneration The desire for improvement is a marked feature of the literature of this half-century, and especially of the literature which emanated from middle-class writers. But, while revolting in this way against the Restoration profligacy the men of Pope's era were quite as hostile as their fathers had been to Puritan fanaticism and religious zeal Thus though England now began to regain lost ground morally, it did not recover the high passion or the spiritual fervour of the Elizabethan age. In their dread emotional excesses' they fell indeed into the mood of of those chilly apathy Good sense became the idol of the time; and good sense meant a love of the reasonable and the useful, and a hatred of the emotional, the mystical and the visionary