… fame and success in his lifetime, Ward’s prolific writing and commercial aims drew the scorn of some, not least AlexanderPope who included Ward among the literary ‘dunces’ in his Dunciad (1728) – thus helping to secure Ward’s lasting …
Grub Street
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… to. The author that was maybe the most instrumental in immortalizing the negative notions of Grub Street was the poet AlexanderPope. Through several satires, but most importantly through his monumental poem The Dunciad (1728-1743), he collected all … levelled against ‘mercenary’ and commercial authors and created vivid images for their abjection. At the heart of Pope’s critique of the commercial writer one can detect an unresolved paradox: on the one hand, he condemns some of the …
… unchained, and of the fragility of human sanity. This was something played upon and contributed to by satirists such as AlexanderPope and William Hogarth, certainly, but also, if Ward is reporting anything based on fact, by inmates themselves. The …