EXAM - English literature 2
poems commenting on contemporary matters, morals and events. Religious bigotry and division of
previous century should be put aside, replaced by mutual tolerance and understanding. New balance in
society <- new way of life <- understanding oneself and world.
Spectator – was to shape the opinions of men and women of the era and also for the next generation.
Articles gace short cut to „polite” opinions and the world of taste. Tone was comic, Whiggish and sceptical.
Subjects cut across educated society, aristocracy, gentry, trade and the professions, producing a shifting
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
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