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Title pages of the c. 1788 edition of the rst volume of the collected edition of Addison and Steeles The Spectator.
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can be found in The Norton Anthology of English LiteraThe Spectator continued to be popular and widely read ture.
in the late 18th and 19th centuries. It was sold in eight Ross, Angus (ed.) Selections from The Tatler and
volume editions. Its prose style, and its marriage of
The Spectator (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982)
morality and advice with entertainment, were considered
[ISBN 0-14-043-130-6]. Edited with an introducexemplary. The decline in its popularity has been distion and notes. Out of print.
cussed by Brian McCrea and C. S. Lewis.
See also
Bully Dawson mentioned in The Spectator as being
kicked by Sir Roger de Coverley in a public coee
house.
The Spectator a current weekly British conservative
magazine.
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The Spectator Nos. 1, 2, 10 [Addison], 171011.
Brian McCrea, Addison and Steele are Dead: The
English Department, Its Canon, and the Professionalization of Literary Criticism
C. S. Lewis, Addison in Eighteenth Century English Literature: Modern Essays in Criticism ed.
James Cliord.
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Editions
The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3: With Translations and Index for the Series at Project Gutenberg
(transcription of 1891 republication)
Dear Mr Spectator, series 2 (BBC series by Elizabeth Kuti, adapted from and inspired by Joseph Addison and Richard Steeles 18th century Spectator
essays)
Hathi Trust
The Spectator; Addison, Joseph, 16721719; Internet Archive
[1] Greenblatt, Stephen (ed.). The Norton Anthology of English Literature (8th ed.). p. A49. ISBN 0393925315.
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