Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… the high-life and low. He was also known to enjoy a tipple himself with fellow satirists in the taverns of the town, reading and writing in company. Taken together, Ward’s life and works are a reminder that the ideal of polite and … hope of climbing up a Golden Mountain, by the help of Powerful Friends’. 2 He produced works that would appeal to the reading public and, he hoped, sell in the bookshops. Indeed, he explicitly acknowledged his commercial aims by playfully … as participants prayed to be delivered from various everyday irritations. 11 Ward’s works catered for a context in which reading was frequently a social activity, and the experience of print a communal one. 12 His verse is peppered with comic …
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