Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… these was serious, the other mock-serious. Jonathan Swift was honestly advocating for the establishment of an academy of letters similar to the Académie Française , a view he expressed in his pamphlet ‘A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and … in 1712, that was answered in the same year by John Oldmixon and Arthur Maynwaring in ‘Reflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley’ and ‘The British Academy’. Thus, Swift felt that an association of eminent men of letters could be beneficial to the state of language, literature, and culture in general. Alexander Pope , on the other …
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