Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… literature. Places > Cities Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Keywords Commerce Patronage Politics Satire Sex The term ‘Grub Street’ is one of the most loaded in the eighteenth-century discourse around the Republic of … 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 all the criticisms … the critics constantly seem to enter into absurd discussions. This can also be understood as part of the Scriblerian satire that Pope developed together with his friends Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, John Gay and Thomas Parnell (see …
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