Editing Joseph Addison (section)

==Contribution==
It is as an essayist that Addison is remembered today. He began writing essays quite casually. In April 1709, his childhood friend Richard Steele started the ''Tatler''. Addison contributed 42 essays to the ''Tatler'', while Steele wrote&nbsp;188. Regarding Addison's help, Steele remarked, "when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fAAkwbsvjswC&pg=PA148 ''Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Richard Steele''], p. 148. Haskell House Publishers, first published 1865.</ref> The ''Tatler'' was discontinued on 2 January 1711. ''The Spectator'' began publication on 1 March of that year, and it continued – being issued daily, and achieving great popularity – until 6 December 1712. It exercised an influence over the reading public of the time, and Addison soon became the leading partner in it, contributing 274 essays out of a total of 635; Steele wrote 236. Addison also assisted Steele with ''The Guardian'', which began in 1713. Addison is the originator of the quote, "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body". The quote can be found in Issue 147 of the ''Tatler''.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Steele|first1=Sir Richard|title=No. 147 Saturday, March 18, 1710|date=1710-03-18|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oseo/instance.00044641|work=The Tatler, Vol. 2|pages=331–335|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-818533-8|last2=Addison|first2=Joseph|doi=10.1093/oseo/instance.00044641|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

The breezy, conversational style of the essays later prompted Bishop [[Richard Hurd (bishop)|Richard Hurd]] to reprove Addison for what he called an "Addisonian Termination", or [[preposition stranding]], a grammatical construction that ends a sentence with a preposition.<ref>[[William Rose Benet]], ''[[The Reader's Encyclopedia]]'', ''s.v.'' "Addisonian Termination".</ref>  [[Alexander Pope]] in his 1735 ''[[Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot]]'' made Addison an object of derision, naming him "Atticus", and comparing him to an [[vipera berus|adder]], "willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike".

He wrote an essay entitled ''Dialogues on Medals'' which was translated into French by eighteenth-century priest and journalist [[Simon-Jérôme Bourlet de Vauxcelles]] (1733–1802). His essay "Adventures of a Shilling" (1710) is a brief, early example of an [[Novel of circulation|it-narrative or object narrative]], a genre that would become more common later in the century.<ref name="Bellamy">{{cite book |last=Bellamy |first=Liz |year=2007 |chapter=It-Narrators and Circulation: Defining a Subgenre |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QS035TUNxpwC&pg=PA119 |editor-last=Blackwell |editor-first=Mark |title=The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-narratives in Eighteenth-century England |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QS035TUNxpwC |location=Cranbury, NJ |publisher=Rosemont |publication-date=2007 |page=119|isbn=9780838756669 }}</ref> He also left an incomplete work, ''Of the Christian Religion''.