EXAM - English literature 2
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)
Satire – fitted Addisons wider objective of trying to avoid the extremes of either Puritan enthusiasm or
Restoration libertinism. Using laughter against fanaticism and vice. Satire used for personal or political
invective (sõim) was impolite. Politeness called satirist to use weapons against not some person but against
vice in general. This was opinion of Addison and Steele
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