EXAM - English literature 2
accord between them. Politeness – art exercised in company. Art – persuasive power setting a person on the
path to virtue. Taste in the arts – important sign of refinement and cultivation, needed for the new „sociable
man” described by Addison and Steele. Society should be humane and more cultured. Programme of the
Spectator and the Tatler: bring this union of art and morality.
Both credited with raising the culturl level of the English middle-classes. Steele: crusader for morality,
Addison: purpose to introduce the middle-class to recent developments in philosophy and literature and so
educate their tastes. Essays discussions on current matters, often in highly ironic and refined style.
Development of the English essay, essayst could be honest observer and reader’s friend.
22. Augustan satire (Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson)
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