The Tatler was a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in which year, 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 such as Samuel Johnson's "Rambler", an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer?
Tatler (1709 journal) 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 Addison and Steele's "Spectator", Samuel Johnson's "Rambler" and "Idler", 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".
Restoration literature Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1689), which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. In general, the term is used to denote roughly homogeneous styles of literature that center on a celebration of or reaction to the restored court of Charles II. It is a literature that includes extremes, for it encompasses both "Paradise Lost" and the Earl of Rochester's "Sodom", the high-spirited sexual comedy of "The Country Wife" and the moral wisdom of "The Pilgrim's Progress". It saw Locke's "Treatises of Government", the founding of the Royal Society, the experiments and holy meditations of Robert Boyle, the hysterical attacks on theaters from Jeremy Collier, and the pioneering of literary criticism from John Dryden and John Dennis. The period witnessed news become a commodity, the essay develop into a periodical art form, and the beginnings of textual criticism.