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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