Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… spring of 1714, and ending in November of that same year, but the ‘Scriblerian spirit’ that was developed in these few meetings never left their participants. The club consisted of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, John Gay, … of society and culture that were worthy of criticism and satire. Its real existence as an actual practice – authors meeting with the self-conception that they were doing so as part of a club – lasted only for less than a year, starting … Swift’s move to Ireland in November of that same year, but the ‘Scriblerian spirit’ that was developed in these few meetings never left their participants, so that it is equally fair to say that the club only ended with the death of its …
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