Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… and ‘The British Academy’. Thus, Swift felt that an association of eminent men of letters could be beneficial to the state of language, literature, and culture in general. Alexander Pope , on the other hand, had previous to the … periodical, The Works of the Unlearned, almost like an academy ex negativo . It was this idea, to think about the state of learning by providing ludicrous examples of un learning, that would form the conceptual core of the club. Still, …
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