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Important characteristics of this Age.

1.Predominance of logic and reason.
2.Lack of passion and emotion in Literature.
3.Literature of town life.
4.Satirical and Didactic.(lacked emotion n imagination and was poetry of argument and criticism,of politics and personalities)
5.Closed Heroic couplet.((suited epigrammatic terseness and satirical suitability and for stereotyped traditional poets diction.)