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William Tudor (search for this): chapter 2.13
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Chapter 3: early essayists George Frisbie Whicher, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English in Amherst College.
The periodical essay in America.
Joseph Dennie.
William Wirt.
James Kirke Paulding.
Richard Henry Dana the elder.
Nathaniel Parker Willis.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
In anticipating Dr. Johnson's advice to fashion his prose style on the model of Addison, Franklin anticipated also the practice of American essay-writers for more than a generation.
Like Franklin's Dogood papers, the first essays printed in colonial newspapers were written with a conscious moral purpose.
With some spice of wit Timothy Dwight and John Trumbull collaborated in an imitation of The Spectator in 1769-70, and between 1785 and 1800 nearly a hundred series of light periodical essays were contributed to various New England journals.
Ellis. H. M., Joseph Dennie and his circle, p. 51. Those of the better sort like the Neighbour of The Massachusetts spy or the Metabasist in The Farmer's
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