Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… its economic affordances and demands did not always focus exclusively on questions of taste and aesthetics. His friend Swift, who had a much greater capacity for laughing at himself, consequently had fewer qualms about counting himself … writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called grubstreet .’ 5 . Jonathan Swift, Correspondence, ed. by Harold Williams, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963–65), vol. I, p. 132–33. … discussions. This can also be understood as part of the Scriblerian satire that Pope developed together with his friends Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, John Gay and Thomas Parnell (see Scriblerus Club), which also implied the social and …
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