… to. The author that was maybe the most instrumental in immortalizing the negative notions of Grub Street was the poet Alexander Pope . Through several satires, but most importantly through his monumental poem The Dunciad (1728-1743), he collected … levelled against ‘mercenary’ and commercial authors and created vivid images for their abjection. At the heart of Pope’s critique of the commercial writer one can detect an unresolved paradox: on the one hand, he condemns some of the …