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… (cf. Stowe Gardens). Meanwhile, through Tonson’s scholarly editions of Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton, the Spectator essays of Joseph Addison (1672-1719) on literary criticism, and the production of patriotic verse in epic mode, they … dominated subscription lists to fund his publication of Caesar’s Commentaries (1712), the first collected volume of essays from The Tatler (1710), and Steele’s bestselling pamphlet The Crisis (1714). He treated the Club’s literary … Penguin, 1969), p. XVII. What Walpole learned politically, Addison and Steele learned in terms of social norms. Neither essayist appears to have been members of any other club prior to 1711, therefore Bickerstaff’s club in The Tatler …
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