The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele

Including His Familiar Letters to His Wife and Daughters, to Which Are Prefixed, Fragments of Thr
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-108-07401-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

Sir Richard Steele (1672–1729), soldier, courtier and dramatist, is best remembered for his founding of two literary and political periodicals, the Tatler and the Spectator (the latter jointly with his friend Joseph Addison). These two volumes of his letters to friends and family were compiled by the publisher John Nichols and published in 1809. Nichols claims in his preface that these letters, 'some of them evidently scribbled when their amiable Author was probably not in the very best condition for penmanship', are nonetheless of great interest, 'as they contain the private and undisguised opinions of the man who took upon himself to be the Censor of the age'. In Volume 1, many of the letters are addressed to his second wife (both before and after their marriage), others to Addison, Swift, and the duke of Marlborough. Fragments of two unfinished plays by Steele, and one by Addison, are also included.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steele, Richard

Nichols, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; The School of Action, a comedy; Fragment of a play; The first act of a tragedy; Epistolary correspondence, letters 1–328.