Thursday, September 23, 2010

The Scriblerus Club

  • informal group of friends that included:
    • Jonathan Swift
    • Alexander Pope
    • John Gay
    • Joh n Arbuthnot
    • Thomas Parnell
  • begas as a project of satirizing the abuses of learning where they might be found
  • led to The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
  • Pope's "The Dunciad" also contains work attributed to Martinus Scriblerus

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