Essays of Joseph Addison by Addison, Joseph; John Richard Green (selection and editing) - 1900
by Addison, Joseph; John Richard Green (selection and editing)
Essays of Joseph Addison
by Addison, Joseph; John Richard Green (selection and editing)
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The Roger De Coverley Club, UK [book c.1900], 1900. Special Ediiton. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. "We commonly regard the Age of the Revolution as an age of military exploits and political changes. To the men who lived in it the age was far more than this. To them the Revolution was more than a merely political revolution; it was the recognition not only of a change in the relations of the nation to its rulers, but of changes almost as great in English society and in English intelligence. If it was the age of the Bill of Rights, it was the age also of the Spectator. If Marlborough and Somers had their share in shaping the new England that came of 1688, so also had Addison and Steele. And to the bulk of people it may be doubted whether the change that passed over literature was not more startling and more interesting than the change that passed over politics. Few changes, indeed, have ever been so radical and complete. Literature suddenly doffed its stately garb of folio or octavo, and stepped abroad in the light and easy dress of pamphlet and essay. Its long arguments and cumbrous sentences condensed themselves into the quick reasoning and terse easy phrases of ordinary conversation. Its tone lost the pedantry of the scholar, the brutality of the controversialist, and aimed at being unpretentious, polite, urbane. The writer aimed at teaching, but at teaching in pleasant and familiar ways; he strove to make evil unreasonable and ridiculous; to shame men by wit and irony out of grossness and bad manners; to draw the world to piety and virtue by teaching piety and virtue themselves to smile. And the change of subject was as remarkable as the change of form." [Editor's Introduction] 3/4 leather; 349 pages; marbled end pages; no dust jacket issued; chipping at top and bottom of spine. DELUXE EDITION.
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- Publisher The Roger De Coverley Club, UK [book c.1900]
- Date Published 1900
- Keywords English essayist, poet, playwright, politician,17th-18th century, The Spectator
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