Sunday, December 2, 2012

Describe the character of Sir Roger de Coverley in The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers?






Sir Roger de
Coverley, an old bachelor in his mid-fifties, is a fictional character created by Joseph
Addison as an author of letters and papers published in the periodical, The
Spectator,
launched in the early 18th century by Addison and his friend,
Richard Steele. Sir Roger has been portrayed as a country gentleman, the benevolent
autocrat, the baronet of a large Worcestershire estate. The knight possessing  exemplary
humaneness, sympathy, moral sense and sense of responsibilty  serves as an ideal country
squire of the 18th century. In London, Sir Roger presides over the "Club,” an informal
 group of men of divergent interests and personalities. He pursues in a harmless way his
Tory politics. On the whole, Sir Roger is a fine literary portrait of a an affable
gentleman.

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