Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… Addison was educated first at Charterhouse School, where he met his lifelong friend and collaborator, Richard Steele , and later at Oxford University. After matriculating at Queen’s College, Addison was elected to a fellowship at … throughout the eighteenth century. In the early nineteenth century, Nathan Drake would declare that Addison and Steele were the ‘two mighty orbs’ who were the true ‘fathers and founders of Periodical Writing’, in his Essays, …
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