Part 1, boyhood reading
Method of imitating Addison's prose; canonical model of self-taught literary skill.
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From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Franklin's account of teaching himself to write by imitating The Spectator—reading an essay, making notes, then reconstructing it—exemplifies the autodidact tradition.
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