The age of
Dryden is also known as the age of restoration. It was an important juncture to
the development of English prose. It was the time when prose moved from
antiquity to modernity.
Mathew Arnold
observes in this connection “the restoration marks the real moment of birth of
modern prose. After the restoration, English prose breaks with the time
preceding it, finds the true laws of prose, and becomes modern, becomes in
spite of superficial differences, the style of our own day”.
Many causes were
combined together in the establishment of the new prose, such as:
- With the stability (firmness) in society, came the stability in language.
- The spread of the common sense and the critical temper of mind played an important role in raising the modern prose.
- Extending influence of science which gave the birth to the clearness of thought and plainness of expression.
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