The Campaign & Other Poems: 'There is no defence against ctiticism except obscurity''

Joseph Addison was born in Millstone, Wiltshire on 1st May 1672. Together with his friend Richard Steele he founded The Spectator magazine.

Addison was an excellent scholar at both Charterhouse and Oxford, particularly in the Classics.

In 1693, he addressed a poem to John Dryden, and his first major work, a book of the lives of English poets, was published in 1694. Addison’s translation of Virgil's ‘Georgics’ was also published in 1694.

Dryden, Lord Somers and Charles Montague, 1st Earl of H...