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Addison and Steele Good friends and intimate partners in literary career background ? Century England:after the “Glorious Revolution”, England witnessed unprecedented technical innovations called the Industrial Revolution, which influenced the way of social life as a whole. ? Enlightenment: took place in Europe, it was, on the whole, an expression of struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism. ? The English Enlighteners: Joseph Addison Richard Steele Alexander Pope ? :The classicists modelled themselves on Greek and Latin authors, writing for the rising bourgeoisie to tidy up the capitalist social order, achieving a rapid growth and prevailed for the better part of the 18th century. Similar experiences of Addison and Steele ? They were contemporaries born in the same year,1672, and were educated at the same , they