The Most Important Virtue Value in Modern Society Is Not Happiness

The dominant literary form of the eighteenth century argubles the letter. Pope and wift were separated for decades on end, and wrote these wonderful letters to each other. But also the letter became a kind of way in which he wrote poetry or fiction. And er e a johnson and boswell, of course, became their relationship became a literary work. Many of the great novels are written in fictional letters,. recording the consciousness of their characters through the writing of letters to friends - as if the best way of catching a person's personality.

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