Tatler : tri-weekly English periodical, chiefly written by Sir Richard Steele with contributions by Joseph Addison, published 1709-11. It also discoursed on manners & society, establishing principles of ideal behaviour & its standard of good taste.
... different from that of the prose periodicals of the time. The poetry of the age taken in the mass gives one the impression of a great social journal inverse, somewhat more brilliant and varied than the Tatler and Spectator but identical in spirit. Form Lastly the poetry of the eighteenth century differs widely inform, i.e. in language & metre, from that of preceding & subsequent poetry. This ...
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