16th And 17th Century English
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Changing Roots of a Literary Society
In order to explore the aspects of Prose we must first understand that over the course of those two hundred years, an extraordinary amount of social upheaval and reformation took place. Several changes occurred politically, religiously, and socially. In order to follow the path of English prose, I ....
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.... science, art, music, and writing. During all of this, conventions, or habitual patterns in literature began to change. Again, for the most part this affected the non-prose area of literature,
however there were some noticeable changes, which affected prose writings.
The use of the pastoral convention concerned itself with love, pursuit of contentment, and freedom from pride and ambition, rather than the gloomy ideas of war and politics.(lit. ....
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