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rural england in Sir roger at churchyard​

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The essays in the Spectator cover a wide diversity of subjects. They are a faithful reflection of the life of the contemporary time viewed with a dispassionate eye. All these essays are the best known in which the characters represent the new social life of England. Sir Roger De Coverley appears in about 35 essays out of a total 555 essays in the Spectator. He has described a number of characters in these essays but the most important character is Sir Roger De Coverley for which these papers are called The Coverley Papers.

Sir Roger is undoubtedly the central character and through his activities, we get a comprehensive picture of the life of the early part of the eighteenth century England. In these character sketches of the spectator, we have the seed of the novel of characters developed in the nineteenth century. The essays in which Sir Roger De Coverley does not figure are more or less obsolete for us. But the essays covering the life and activities of Sir Roger De Coverley have a permanent appeal and originality. The character of Sir Roger was not drawn by Addison alone; the outline of his character was sketched by Richard Steele. It was Addison who took crude outlines into his own hands, retouched them, colored them, and is in truth the creator of Sir Roger De Coverley with whom we are all familiar.