Joseph Addison

Sheridan had hired Theophilus Cibber for the summer season; Cibber, predictably, made trouble, in this case over a production of Addison 's Cato. Frances Chamberlaine's verse was printed in a pamphlet of this year...

The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...

Again as a Lady and through William Hinchliffe , JB printed An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the death of Mr. Addison.

SC complimented Anne Oldfield 's acting in Addison 's Cato, with a poem written in Oldfield's copy of Fontenelle 's Plurality of Worlds.

SC 's later occasional poems include an epistle to and pastoral elegy on her fellow-playwright Nicholas Rowe and a twenty-first birthday poem for Addison 's stepson.

The volume opens with translations from classical authors, and includes two psalms translated into Latin.ET also translated from the sixteenth-century Latin of George Buchanan . One poem, Ariette, was listed as set...

The third and final letter in the series is written by Montezella. It mentions a story which is postponed to a future letter, but includes a poem, Verses extempore, on Commodore Anson , with a...

JOH sometimes discusses her own writing, career, and ambition: One's place in literature is a possession—never a concession. And one knows one's place. I don't wish to be judged—one way or the other—till I am...

JB 's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful...