Joseph Addison

Her brief in this paper was again to attack the Whigs. Her first number appeared five days after Addison 's Spectator number 81, which sought to decry and put a stop to Party-Rage in Women.

An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...

This magazine has a second supposed author: the parrot, who is male. This creature, born in Java, has seen the world, since its long life has been spent with fifty-five different families successively. Though not...

Mary Singleton, supposed author of this paper, with its trenchant comments on society and politics, is an unmarried woman on the verge of fifty, good-humoured as well as sharply intelligent: a contribution to the...

The author chose as her narrator and central subject a Roman coin stamped with the image of the emperor Hadrian , which is possessed by a series of characters including a gladiator, Renaissance artist Guido Reni

David Simple predates all fictional work by Samuel Johnson and all but the earliest works by Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson , which are sometimes mistakenly spoken of as its models. It may be seen...

She consistently takes a challenging stance in face of authority. Ironically (in view of Johnson's championing of women writers and Burns's snobbish attitude about herself) she uses Samuel Johnson as a symbol of the tyrant-critic...

The title-page quotes Pope , who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron (The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor (The Squire's...

The novel opens arrestingly as the child Gwen and her siblings struggle back into their house from a walk in wild and stormy weather. Gwen's later-famous brother is called Gus, not Augustus , to forestall...

In 1795, by which time the novel was generally disapproved as coarse and sexually explicit, a correspondent of the Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby defended it in terms which acknowledged its indelicate language and its...

The Critical reviewed this novel two months after publication. It goes unmentioned by Virgil B. Heltzel in Fair Rosamond. A Study of the Development of a Literary Theme, 1947. Those preceding Helme in treating...

As to poetry, Paradise Lost was quickly recognised as a classic. In 1674, while it was still a very recent text, Dryden praised it as undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime...

Swift also, like his erstwhile allies Addison and Steele , was spurred by DM 's example to consternation over women's growing political activity. Though he was personally her friend, Swift undoubtedly aimed partly at her...

These poems reflect social life and perhaps the company of lawyers in the London of about 1720. Their author glories in her liberty—in several senses, but including freedom from the meaningless literary rules which...

Her poems, full of character and ingenuity, spring from social interchange. The title piece is a longish, narrative, occasional poem, Sent with a Pair of China Basons to JW 's dedicatee (who may probably...