Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison was a British writer and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he fo
Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1703–1712
Joseph Addison: engraving after the Kneller portrait
The actor John Kemble, in the role of Cato, revived at Covent Garden in 1816, drawn by George Cruikshank
Addison in 1719, the year he died
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan liter
Portrait by Michael Dahl, c. 1727
Mawson Arms, Chiswick Lane, with blue plaque to Pope
Alexander Pope, painting attributed to English painter Jonathan Richardson, c. 1736, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Frontispiece and title page of a 1752 edition of Pope's Odyssey