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...

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

An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr. Addison, published in February 1720 by a Lady, is attributed to ESR in a contemporary note on the title-page of a...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...