Description
* 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
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’
Essays from ‘The Guardian’
Essays from ‘The Lover’
The Biographies
Addison by William John Courthope
Addison by Samuel Johnson
Life of Joseph Addison by George Gilfillan
Joseph Addison by William Spalding
