Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… provide each other with creative ideas to be used together or at each member’s discretion, developing a kind of intellectual and creative sociability that is one of the key aspects of its legacy. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices … core of the club. Still, the club was also the closest that Swift got to his desire for a society of like-minded intellectuals and wits. In terms of social relations, the club developed out of a number of associations that all come … the invitation-poems that the members sent to Harley in 1714, asking him to pause his political work to partake of their intellectual sociability. Two of the poems were first published in 1766, but the others first appeared in Harold …
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