Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… in 1745. And while the club did not immediately generate a lot of creative material, the same spirit can be found expressed in some of the enduring literary masterpieces of the early eighteenth century, and powerfully shapes our own … 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 Ascertaining the English Tongue’ in 1712, that was … just as we diverted our selves. 1 1 . George Sherburn (ed), The Correspondence of Alexander Pope, 5 vols. (Clarendon Press, 1956), II, p. 426 Even more important to the cultural legacy of the club were a number of works that were …
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