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Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… spirit’ that was developed in these few meetings never left their participants. The club consisted of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, John Gay, and Thomas Parnell, as well as Robert Harley, then the secretary of the treasurer. … Mots-clés Academy England Meeting Association Satire Social network Intellectual circle Club Friendship Collaboration Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift The Scriblerus Club was much less a formalized social practice, let alone a social …

Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]

… Résumé As the most celebrated British poet of the early eighteenth century, Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was a highly influential figure in the formation and articulation of sociable ideals. However, while he … Club Correspondence Literary celebrity Enmity Both in financial terms and in the scale of his cultural influence, Alexander Pope was one of the most successful poets of early eighteenth-century Britain. Born into a Catholic family in …

Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]

… Places > Cities Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Mots-clés book market Satire Patronage commercialization Alexander Pope The term ‘Grub Street’ is one of the most loaded in the eighteenth-century discourse around the Republic of Letters … to. The author that was maybe the most instrumental in immortalizing the negative notions of Grub Street was the poet Alexander Pope. Through several satires, but most importantly through his monumental poem The Dunciad (1728-1743), he …

Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]

… the most significant characteristics of the eighteenth century, especially in England. Writers and poets (such as Swift, Pope, Richardson) became the main public figures in the sharing of information, opinions and collective reflections. This … conveying the sense of a modern taste for sociable encounters. 3 2 . Harold A. Innis, The Bias of Communication, intr. Alexander J. Watson (Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press, 2007), p. 142. 3 . Sebastian Domsch and Mascha … proliferation of small editions and a change in format, due to the high cost of paper and the low cost of typesetting. Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad (1728-1743) was a refined attack on mediocre writers and cunning publishers, as McLuhan …

Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]

… met the exiled Pretender in 1716, marking the beginning of his ever-shifting allegiances. In his Moral Essays (1731-35), Alexander Pope, who lived near Wharton in Twickenham, describes him as a deeply ambivalent person: ‘A fool with more of wit than … too refin’d […] He dies, sad out-cast of each church and state / And, harder still! flagitious, yet not great’. 1 1 . Alexander Pope, Moral Essays: In Four Epistles (Glasgow: printed by R. Urie, 1754), p. 16, lines 204-205. Wharton’s …

Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]

… literary figures and royalty. He was a close friend of David Garrick, Edmund Burke and Henry Fielding, was celebrated by Alexander Pope and even admired by royalty, in particular King George II (1683-1760) . In his forties he converted to Protestantism … Charles Macklin: An Actor’s Life (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1960). […] attended the rendezvous and there found Pope, and a select party, who complimented him very highly on the part of Shylock, and questioned him about many little …