Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… to which everyone subscribed. People > Commerce People > Art and Literature Keywords Clubs Humour Impoliteness Politics Satire Sex Taverns Edward ‘Ned’ Ward was a satirist and tavern keeper, most widely recognised as the author of The London … ‘an infinity of clubs or societies for the improvement of learning and keeping up with good humour and mirth’. 8 Ward’s satire skewers this fashion, with almost four hundred pages detailing thirty-two clubs and their chief activities. Clubs … is peppered with comic half-rhymes, the full effects of which are only realised when read aloud. One of his political satires, The Galloper (1710), even noted in the preface that ‘the Terminations of the Verse’ are ‘such as measure no …
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