The English essayist, poet, playwright and politician, Joseph Addison was a leading contributor and guiding spirit of the periodicals ‘The Tatler’ and ‘The Spectator’. Addison also wrote ‘Cato’, one of the most successful tragedies of the eighteenth century. Dr. Samuel Johnson’s praise of Addison established him as one of the most admired and influential masters of prose. This comprehensive eBook presents Addison’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Addison’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major works
* All the plays and English poetry, with individual contents tables
* Features rare works appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare essays available in no other collection
* Special alphabetical contents table for the poetry
* Includes Addison’s rare magazine contributions — available in no other collection
* Features four biographies — discover Addison’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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CONTENTS:

The Dramatic Works
Rosamond
Cato
The Drummer

The Poetry
The Poetical Works of Addison
The Poems in Alphabetical Order

The Prose
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c.
The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation, Consider’d
The Late Tryal and Conviction of Count Tariff
A Dissertation upon the Most Celebrated Roman Poets
The Old Whig
Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals
Serino
The Evidences of the Christian Religion
A Discourse on Antient and Modern Learning
Maxims, observations, and Reflections: Moral, Political, and Divine
Notes upon the Twelve Books of Paradise Lost
The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers

The Magazines
Essays from ‘The Tatler’
The Spectator
Essays from ‘The Free-Holder’

The Biographies
Addison by William John Courthope
Addison by Samuel Johnson
Life of Joseph Addison by George Gilfillan
Joseph Addison by William Spalding

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