Joseph addison essays on education
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Joseph Addison's (–) essays in The Spectator occupy contradictory positions in the history of aesthetics.
Literary Criticism of Joseph Addison
By NASRULLAH MAMBROLon •
Though he was also a poet and dramatist, Joseph Addison (–) 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.
Together with his friend and colleague Richard Steele whom he had known since his schooldays, he authored a series of articles in the periodicals the Tatler (–) and the Spectator (–). It was his ambition to bring philosophical, political, and literary discussion within the reach of the middle classes.
He was a politician as well as a writer, holding positions of undersecretary of state, lord lieutenant, and then chief secretary for Ireland, as well as being a member of the Whig or Liberal Party from until his death. Steele too was a political liberal, and the two men used their periodicals for literary, moral, and educational purposes.
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