Introductory Note. Joseph Addison. 1909-14. English Essays.
JOSEPH ADDISON, the son of Lancelot Addison, D.D. and of Jane, the daughter of Nathaniel Gulston, D.D., and sister of Dr. William Gulston, bishop of Bristol, was born at Milston, near Ambrosebury, in the county of Wilts, in the year 1671. His father, who was of the county of Westmoreland, and educated at Queen's College in Oxford, passed many years in his travels through Europe and Africa.
The Spectator, Steele-and-Addison's Spectator, is a monument befitting the most memorable friendship in our history. Steele was its projector, founder, editor, and he was writer of that part of it which took the widest grasp upon the hearts of men. His sympathies were with all England. Defoe and he, with eyes upon the future, were the truest leaders of their time. It was the firm hand of his.
Introduction. Joseph Addison’s Cato, A Tragedy captured the imaginations of eighteenth-century theatergoers throughout Great Britain, North America, and much of Europe. From its original performance on April 14, 1713, the play was a resounding success. Embraced by an audience whose opinions spanned the political spectrum, Cato was a popular and critical triumph that had tremendous appeal.
Joseph Addison. The Spectator. Birthplace: Milston, Wiltshire, England Location of death: London, England Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Poets' C. English essayist, poet and man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison, later dean of Lichfield, was born at his father's rectory of Milston in Wiltshire, on the 1st of May.
Their rural layout influenced the poet, essayist and statesman Joseph Addison (1672-1719), who as a Fellow knew the college precincts well and took daily walks around the Meadow. Through his Spectator essays of 1711-13 Addison exerted considerable influence on the evolution of the English garden by advocating that 'a whole Estate be thrown into a kind of Garden by frequent Plantations that may.
Like the other essays of Joseph Addison this essay is an effort to uphold moral and social values in the post-restoration English society running away from puritanism. Addison promotes the significance of balance and common sense. This essay presents several examples of gentle humour. The tone is not bitter or sarcastic or didactic. Such essays of Addison contain good examples of.
H. P. Lovecraft: Advice to Aspiring Writers (1920) “A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe’s will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.” Henry Miller: Reflections on Writing.