Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… lack of success as an indication that a writer must be bad, as witnessed by his conjunction of the ‘Cave of Poetry and Poverty’ in the Dunciad . Pope himself is, as a professional and successful author, both transitional for the development … and marginalization of the author became a sign of his authenticity, originality, and incorruptibility. Thus, the poverty that had been a hallmark of Grub Street satire literally became romanticized into the notion of bohemia: ‘To-day, …
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