Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called grubstreet .’ 5 . Jonathan Swift, Correspondence, ed. by Harold Williams, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963–65), vol. I, p. 132–33. From the …
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