Joseph Addison

Like most of her peers, MMB maintained a lively correspondence. Some of it is reproduced in A House of Letters, edited by Ernest Betham (though he prints more letters to than from her). She...

This volume also included work by Milton , Dryden , Addison , Pope , Carter , and Barbauld .

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

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...