Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [ Art and Literature ]
… to the assembly. Sterne published his sermons under the title The Sermons of Mr. Yorick (1760, 1766). This caused the displeasure of some critics who disapproved of publication of religious texts under the name of Yorick, the King’s jester in … a desire to take part in a local quarrel, perhaps in the (disappointed) hope of preferment, as from the discovery of the pleasures of writing. The pamphlet was destroyed, and only a handful of copies have survived. The pleasures of writing in the satirical vein soon became apparent with the publication of the first two volumes of The Life …
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