英美文学PPT Joseph Addison.ppt

Joseph Addison,Author Introduction WorksContributionWriting style,By 黄培华 Business English major , class 3,Author Introduction,Joseph Addison(1672-1719)was a English essayist , poet, and dramatist.Was born in May,1st, 1672 in the Wiltshire.died in London at the age of forty-seven. remembered chiefly for his prose mastery.,Author Introduction,Joseph Addison,a distinguished scholarsecretary of Statea prosperous life,peaceful life in politics and in literatureclose friendship with Steele,life,Joseph Addison was born in 1272.When he was still a young boy,he met Steele,who became Addisons life-long friend.At 15,the two boys went to Oxford,to the university.Young Addison soon became known as a writer of verses.,Joseph Addisons Works,Rosamond,罗莎蒙1701A letter from Italy,意大利来鸿1704Campaign,出征1705，his best-known poem in heroic coupletTatler,闲谈者1709Spectator,旁观者1711-1712,a daily paperThoughts in Westminster Abbey, 墓园沉思1711Cato,卡托1713,a tragedy,Tatler,“the Tatler” was published three times a week.The paper became extremely popular because it was just the sort of thing that suited the needs of the reading public among the bourgeoisie.,Spectator,A daily newspaper ,one essay a daydealing with the costoms, manners,morals,literature and other current topics of the time,in a light and pleasant mannersupposed to be edited by a small club headed by Mr.Spectatoroffered to the British middle class Models of social and moral behavior,The significance of his essays,“Tatler”and“Spectator”provide a new code of social morality for the rising bourgeoisie.They give a ture picture of the social life of England in the 18th century.They developed a form of character sketching and story telling,which were widely used in the modern novels.,Contribution,Addison developed the form of letter writing to the verge of the epistolary novel(书信体小说）.Addison created a perfect style: lucid(clear),colloquial ,full of individuality and yet refined by the choice of words.Humor ,intimacy and elegance are the striking features of the English familiar essay(随笔）.,Writing style,As Samuel Johnson wrote,“Whoever wishes to attain an English style,familiar but not coarse,and elegant but not ostentatious,must give his days and nights to the study of Addison.”,Thank you!,