Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… Image Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, ‘Joseph Addison’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 3193, circa 1712. Résumé Joseph Addison was an important theorist of sociability best known for his essays published in The Tatler (1709-1711) and The … and his character was presented as exemplary of the polite manners that he sought to describe and defend in his works. Addison was also well known as a prominent Whig politician and his literary style exemplified Whig political ideals and …
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