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Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 May 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.
Jun 13, 2024 · Joseph Addison (born May 1, 1672, Milston, Wiltshire, England—died June 17, 1719, London) was an English essayist, poet, and dramatist, who, with Richard Steele, was a leading contributor to and guiding spirit of the periodicals The Tatler and The Spectator.
Joseph Addison, (born May 1, 1672, Milston, Wiltshire, Eng.—died June 17, 1719, London), English essayist, poet, and dramatist. His poem on the Battle of Blenheim, The Campaign (1705), brought him to the attention of leading Whigs and paved the way to important government posts (including secretary of state) and literary fame.
Dec 17, 2017 · Though he was also a poet and dramatist, Joseph Addison (1672–1719) is best known as an essayist, and indeed he contributed much to the development of the essay form, which, like the literary form of the letter, flourished in the eighteenth century.
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May 23, 2018 · ADDISON, JOSEPH (1672 – 1719), English poet, essayist, and critic. Addison helped to elevate the literary status of English prose while holding important political offices for the Whig party. He was born in 1672 at Milston, Wiltshire.
Joseph Addison wrote in almost every genre flourishing in British literature during the reigns of William III and Queen Anne.
While working in various government positions, including Secretary of State, Addison worked closely with Richard Steele, first as a writer for the Tatler, which first ran in 1709, and then as a co-founder of the Spectator and the Guardian between 1711 and 1714.
Within the most central confines of London’s Westminster Abbey, an observant visitor might notice the curiosity of one figure very unusually repeating in two distinct places and forms—once as a body buried beneath a loving gravestone in the chapel of Mary Tudor and her half-sister Elizabeth, the first modern English queens regnant; and once agai...
