The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers. Joseph Addison

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СКАЧАТЬ Reign of Queen Anne, by Justin McCarthy, two volumes, 1902. Contains, also, much valuable information upon literary and social matters; written in the manner of the journalist, but entertaining and generally trustworthy.

      History of the English People, by John Richard Green, Volume III.

      Social

      The History of England, by T. B. Macaulay (1849-1851), Chapter III. This famous chapter is still one of the best accounts of social conditions in England at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries.

      Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, by John Ashton, 1882. This is the best account of dress, manners, amusements, travel, trade, and all the details of social life; it is frequently referred to in the notes of this volume.

      Good Queen Anne, by W. H. D. Adams, 1886.

      England and the English in the Eighteenth Century, by W. C. Sydney, 1891.

      Social England, by H. D. Traill, Volume IV., 1895.

      London in the Eighteenth Century, by Walter Besant, 1903. A storehouse of curious and valuable information, with many especially interesting illustrations from contemporary prints, drawings, and portraits.

      The Popular History of England, by Charles Knight (1859), Volume V., Chapters XXVI-XXX.

      Thackeray's Henry Esmond—perhaps the most remarkable historical novel in the language—represents with wonderful fidelity the very atmosphere of the Queen Anne time.

      But, above all, the student who wishes to gain a sympathetic acquaintance with the life of this most interesting period, and to enter into its spirit, should read more of its literature—especially the Tatler and Spectator, Swift's Journal to Stella, Pope's Satires and Epistles, Gay's Trivia, and the Letters of Steele, Swift, Pope, and Bolingbroke.

      Literary

      A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1889), and From Shakespeare to Pope (1885), by Edmund Gosse.

      English Literature in the Eighteenth Century, by T. S. Perry (1883).

      An Illustrated History of English Literature, by Richard Garnett and Edmund Gosse, Volume III., From Milton to Johnson, by Edmund Gosse (1903), Chapter III. A popular survey of English literary history, most profusely illustrated with portraits and facsimiles.

      A Few Words about the Eighteenth Century, by Frederic Harrison. (The Choice of Books, 1886.)

      Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au XVIII^e Siècle, by A. Beljame, 1881.

      Lectures on the Comic Writers and Periodical Essayists, by William Hazlitt. (Delivered in 1819; best edition in the Temple Classics, edited by Austin Dobson, 1900.)

Chronological Table

       Table of Contents

Steele	Addison
1672.	March 12. Born in Dublin, Ireland.	1672.	May 1. Born in Milston, England.
		1683.	His father appointed Dean of Lichfield.
1684.	November. Enters Charterhouse School.	1683-85.	In the grammar school of Lichfield.
		1686.	Entered the Charterhouse School.
		1687.	Entered Queen's College, Oxford.
		1689.	Obtained a scholarship in Magdalen College.
1690.	Matriculates at Christ Church College, Oxford.
		1693.	Received the degree of M. A.
1694.	Leaves the University and enters the army as a cadet, under Lord Cutts.	1694.	Printed An Account of the Greatest English Poets.
			Translation of the Fourth Book of Virgil's Georgics.
1695.	Publishes The Procession, a poem on the death of Queen Mary.	1695.	Address to King William.
	Secretary to Lord Cutts, and Ensign in the Coldstream Guards	1698.	Made fellow of Magdalen College
		1699.	Latin Poems.
			Receives a pension of £300 a year.
		1699-1703.	On the continent.
1700.	Referred to as "Captain."
1701.	April. Publishes The Christian Hero.
	December. Publishes The Funeral.
1702.	Captain in Lord Lucas' Fusiliers.	1702.	His pension lapses.
		1703.	Returns to England.
1704.	January. Publishes The Lying Lover. 1704. Publishes The Campaign; appointed Commissioner of Appeals.
1705.	May. Publishes The Tender Husband	1705.	Publishes Remarks on Several Parts of Italy.
	Marries Mrs. Margaret Stretch, who died about a year later.
1706.	Leaves the army. 1706. Publishes Rosamund.
1707.	Appointed Gazetteer and Gentleman Usher to Prince George of Denmark. Named Under-Secretary of
	September. Marries Miss Mary Scurlock.

Contemporary Literature	History
1678.	Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Part I.	1685.	Accession of James II.
			Monmouth's Rebellion and the Bloody Assize.
1681-2.	Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, MacFlecknoe.	1686.	Attempted Repeal of the Test Act. First Declaration of Indulgence.
1684.	Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Part II.
1687.	Dryden's Hind and Panther.
		1688.	New Declaration of Indulgence; Trial of the Bishops. Revolution; Accession of William and Mary.
1690.	Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding.	1689.	The Toleration Act.
	Treatise on Civil Government.	1690.	The Battle of the Boyne.
		1694.	Queen Mary died.
1697.	Dryden's Alexander's Feast, Translation of Virgil.	1697.	Peace of Ryswick.
1701.	Defoe's Trueborn Englishman.	1701.	Grand Alliance between England, Austria, Holland, against France.
1702.	Defoe's Shortest Way with Dissenters.	1702.	War of Spanish Succession begins.
			King William dies; accession of Queen Anne.
			Tory Party in majority.
1704.	Swift's Battle of the Books and Tale of a Tub.	1703.	Victory of Blenheim.
	Defoe's Review begun.		Harley and St. John called to the ministry.
		1705.	Increasing power of the Whigs; union of Whigs and moderate Tories.
		1706.	Marlborough defeats French at Ramillies.
		1707.	Union with Scotland.

Steele	Addison
		1708.	Chief Secretary to Earl of Wharton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
1709.	April 12. First number of The Tatler.	1709.	Joins Steele in the conduct of The Tatler.
1710.	January. Appointed Commissioner of Stamps.	1710.	September, October. Conducts The Whig Examiner. Loses his Secretaryship.
	October. Loses his place as Gazetteer.
1711.	January 2. Last number of The Tatler.	1711-14.	With Steele conducts The Spectator.
	March 1. First number of The Spectator.
1712.	December 6. Last number of The Spectator under the joint editorship of Steele and Addison.	1712.	Poems.
1713.	March 12. The Guardian begun.	1713.	April 14. Cato first acted; published in the same month.
	August. Elected to Parliament from Stockbridge.		Contributes to The Guardian.
	October 1. The Guardian discontinued.
	October 6. The Englishman begun.
1714.	January. Publishes The Crisis.	1714.	Eighth volume of The Spectator. СКАЧАТЬ В начало < 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 > В конец