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Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century:
Answer: A
The work that does not belong to the eighteenth century is Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning, which appeared in 1605 and so belongs to the Jacobean period at the start of the seventeenth. Swift's Gulliver's Travels came out in 1726, The Spectator was published by Addison and Steele in 1711-12 and 1714, and Pope's An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot dates from 1735. All three of those are works of the eighteenth century, which leaves Bacon's treatise as the odd one out. The Advancement of Learning is a prose work on the state of knowledge and its reform, and it forms part of Bacon's plan for the Great Instauration.
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