Buchara state university m. Bakoeva, E. Muratova, M. Ochilova english literature

o f Classicism, because many writers and poets o f that time were 
fascinated by ancient Greece and Rome. It has been called the 
Age o f E egan ce, for the display o f elegant style o f life among the 
upper classes.
Eighteenth-century literature reflects the ideas and interests 
o f the A ge o f Fleason, the Age o f Classicism, the Age o f Elegance. 
Works show a sense o f order and moderation; writers display 
their “wit”, or cleverness. Prose is calm and logical; poem s are 
carefully structured.
In the eighteenth century the subjects o f study to which man 
applied him self became more numerous and more systematic, and 
il was the good fortune o f England that prose in that age had 
becom e a pliant and serviceable medium. It was a century full o f  
speculation and fierce questioning, a century with powerful minds 
that applied them selves to the problems o f the nature o f life, and 
set out sc lutions, which have been the basis o f much laterthought. 
It was a century, above all others, when England led Europe in 
philosophical speculation. The center o f interest was human 
experience, and what could be learned from it o f the nature o f  
life. Richardson and Fielding explored human experience in fiction. 
Historians were attempting, more ambitiously than before, to 
interpret the past o f life, and philosophers to expound the nature 
o f reality itself. It w'as natural that in such a century the orthodox 
teachings ofthe Church should be open to criticism. Writers widely 
accepted those literary forms, in particular, prose forms, which 
were understandable to the people as a whole. Manners, fashions, 
literature, stories, moral reflections, all took a turn as themes in