Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… Grubstreetaria’ , and in ‘PROMETHEUS’ he invokes the ‘Pow’rs of Grub-street’ to help him complete the poem. 5 Samuel Johnson famously included himself among the Grub Street writers when he wrote the respective entry for his Dictionary of … already lost the traditional financial support through aristocratic patronage. As Thomas Macaulay writes about Samuel Johnson in 1831: ‘Johnson came up to London precisely at the time when the condition of a man of letters was most miserable and degraded. …
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