Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… emerge as a competitor for the Kit-Kat Club) he could not match the other members in providing ‘hints’, let alone witty publications. Still, one of the most direct written results of the club are the invitation-poems that the members sent to … far from his zenith as the leading man of letters in London, by 1714 he had already become a prominent voice in the republic of letters, gaining recognition with Windsor Forest (1711), controversy with An Essay on Criticism (1713), and … trends and fashions of its time. A more or less direct translation of the collaborative Scriblerian spirit into publication can be found in the four volumes of Miscellanies that the bookseller Motte published between 1727 and 1732, …
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