<P> The Tatler was a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709 and published for two years . It represented a new approach to journalism , featuring cultivated essays on contemporary manners , and established the pattern that would be copied in such British classics as Addison and Steele 's Spectator , Samuel Johnson 's Rambler and Idler , and Goldsmith 's Citizen of the World , and influence essayists as late as Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt . Addison and Steele liquidated The Tatler in order to make a fresh start with the similar Spectator , and the collected issues of Tatler are usually published in the same volume as the collected Spectator . </P>
<P> The Tatler was a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709 and published for two years . It represented a new approach to journalism , featuring cultivated essays on contemporary manners , and established the pattern that would be copied in such British classics as Addison and Steele 's Spectator , Samuel Johnson 's Rambler and Idler , and Goldsmith 's Citizen of the World , and influence essayists as late as Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt . Addison and Steele liquidated The Tatler in order to make a fresh start with the similar Spectator , and the collected issues of Tatler are usually published in the same volume as the collected Spectator . </P>
tatler a literary and a society journal begun by which essayist
tatler a literary and a society journal begun by which essayist
Richard Steele
Richard Steele