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Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… Abstract The Scriblerus Club lasted only for less than a year, starting in the spring of 1714, and ending in November of that same year, but the … Robert Harley, then the secretary of the treasurer. Working collaboratively, the group created the persona of Martinus Scriblerus, through whose writings they wanted to accomplish their satirical aims. Besides this persona, the idea of …

Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]

… sociability as it was generally understood by his contemporaries. People > Art and Literature Keywords poetry Friendship Scriblerus Club Correspondence Literary celebrity Enmity Both in financial terms and in the scale of his cultural influence, … other men, but these sometimes assumed symbolic value disproportionate to their practical substance. The famed Scriblerus Club is a case in point. The club itself met in person only for a few months in 1714. It survived thereafter …

Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]

… satire that Pope developed together with his friends Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, John Gay and Thomas Parnell (see Scriblerus Club), which also implied the social and intellectual coherence of pedants and other proponents of un-learning. The same …