Today’s Writer-Joseph Addison

     Joseph Addison



Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 May 1719) was one of the greatest prose stylists, an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician in English literary history.  He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison.  a renowned contemporary writer and politician in Great Britain. He is best known for his satirical social criticisms and contributions to The Tatler and The Spectator, which he founded with his friend Richard Steele.

He was the pioneer of a style that was very simple, lucid, natural, moderate, free from extravagant expression, and called the 'middle style'. The most striking feature of Addison's style is the clearness and lucidity of expression.

 First, he states that in some way the sublime requires a unified magnificence. Second, he cites the usual mountains, deserts, and seas as the most sublime parts of external nature. Joseph Addison was M.P. for Malmesbury from 1709 until he died in 1719. Although he was Secretary of State in 1717, he is more renowned as an essayist.

He, with Richard Steele, founded 'The Spectator' in 1711. In 1713, Addison published his masterpiece, the drama Cato, which was received with acclamation by both Whigs and Tories and was followed by the comedy, The Drummer. His last undertaking was The Freeholder, a party paper that existed briefly between the years 1715 and 1716.

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