Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… with creative ideas to be used together or at each member’s discretion, developing a kind of intellectual and creative sociability that is one of the key aspects of its legacy. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture … that the members sent to Harley in 1714, asking him to pause his political work to partake of their intellectual sociability. Two of the poems were first published in 1766, but the others first appeared in Harold Williams’s 1958 … instrumental in its being mythologized by its own members as well as by posterity as a pinnacle of witty and creative sociability. What is uncontested is the extent to which the principle of the club merged sociability and literary …
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