<p>Addison written by William John Courthope. Published by<br>HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS in 1902. and now republished in ePub file. William John Courthope was an English writer and historian of poetry, whose father was rector of South Malling, Sussex.<br>Of the four English men of letters whose writings most fully embody the spirit of the eighteenth century, the one who provides the biographer with the scantiest materials is Addison. In his ...