Joseph Addison,English essayist
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| Joseph Addison (1672-1719),English essayist and politician. Addison was born in Wiltshire and educated at Charterhouse School and Queen's College,Oxford. He excelled in classics and published a translation of Virgil's Georgics in 1695. After a brief spell in Europe he found himself unemployed until 1704 when he was commissioned to compose a work celebrating the Battle of Blenheim entitled The Campaign. A career in politics followed,although he continued writing poetry and plays,the most notable of which was Cato,A Tragedy. Addison heklped found the Kitcat Club,at which he and his friend Richard Steele worked to start The Spectator magazine. This engraving by Jacobous Houbraken,based on a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller,is from Birch's 'The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain' published in 1752 | |
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