Literature in the Age of Reason by Rachel Ray https://padlet.com/rray9/lit Writers en-us 2018-03-27 13:40:33 UTC 2025-12-15 19:41:32 UTC hello@padlet.com Jonathan Swift https://padlet.com/rray9/lit/wish/246624007 • (1667-1745)
  • • Greatest work Gulliver’s Travels- is a good about strange adventures of a man named Gulliver
• He believed that society’s or problems resulted from man’s failure to use his capacity of reason- which is wrong 

]]> 2018-03-27 17:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rray9/lit/wish/246624007 Alexander Pope https://padlet.com/rray9/lit/wish/246624244 ▪the foremost poetic satirist
▪one of the most quoted poets of his day


]]> 2018-03-27 17:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rray9/lit/wish/246624244 Molière https://padlet.com/rray9/lit/wish/246624777 • Famous for his comedies in which he pokes fun at the hypocrisy and vices in society. ]]> 2018-03-27 17:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rray9/lit/wish/246624777 Edward Gibbon https://padlet.com/rray9/lit/wish/246625196
  • Wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 
  • Blamed Christianity and Barbarians for the fall of Rome
    • ]]>     2018-03-27 17:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rray9/lit/wish/246625196     Daniel Defoe https://padlet.com/rray9/lit/wish/246626639 He wrote two books called the Robinson Crusoe and Pamela.]]> 2018-03-27 17:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rray9/lit/wish/246626639