Addison, Joseph
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719). English essayist, who founded the periodical The Spectator with his school-friend Richard Steele in 1711. Using various names, Addison contributed nearly 300 essays during its 21 months of daily publication. He also held various offices in the Whig government of 1714-18. He is considered a master of English prose.
“Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets (1779)”
