The Scriblerus Club was an informal association of authors, based in London, that came together in the early 18th century. They were prominent figures...
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remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and...
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noted literary figure, serving as a patron of both the October Club and the Scriblerus Club. Harley Street is sometimes said to be named after him, although...
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The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus is an incomplete satirical work co-written ostensibly by the members of the Scriblerus Club during the years 1713–14...
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published under the name of H. Scriblerus Secundus, a pseudonym intended to link himself ideally with the Scriblerus Club of literary satirists founded...
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December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera...
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Pope, John Gay, and John Arbuthnot, forming the core of the Martinus Scriblerus Club (founded in 1713). Swift became increasingly active politically in...
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early as 1713 when Swift, Gay, Pope, Arbuthnot and others formed the Scriblerus Club with the aim of satirising popular literary genres. According to these...
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the Tory and Whig parties—and also, in 1714, by the formation of the Scriblerus Club, which included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot...
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was written by "Scriblerus Secundus," which places his play within an earlier literary tradition. The name refers to the Scriblerus Club, a satirical group...
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(published posthumously – 1766) Related Esther Johnson Esther Vanhomrigh Scriblerus Club Swift crater The House That Swift Built (1982 film) "The Reasons that...
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formed the satirical Scriblerus Club. Its aim was to satirise ignorance and pedantry through the fictional scholar Martinus Scriblerus. He also made friends...
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Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (1735) Related Popeswood Binfield Scriblerus Club Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" Heroic couplet...
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(published posthumously – 1766) Related Esther Johnson Esther Vanhomrigh Scriblerus Club Swift crater The House That Swift Built (1982 film) "The Reasons that...
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in London, where he participated with Pope, Swift and others in the Scriblerus Club, contributing to The Spectator and aiding Pope in his translation of...
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Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (1735) Related Popeswood Binfield Scriblerus Club Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" Heroic couplet...
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a physician known as a man of wit. He was a member of the Martinus Scriblerus Club, along with Pope, Jonathan Swift and John Gay. He was formerly the...
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(published posthumously – 1766) Related Esther Johnson Esther Vanhomrigh Scriblerus Club Swift crater The House That Swift Built (1982 film) "The Reasons that...
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Events from the year 1714 in literature. March – The Scriblerus Club, an informal group of literary friends, includes Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope,...
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the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes) and the new political societies (the Rota Club is mentioned). His book is intended to be a tub that the sailors of state...
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over and over again on his stupidity and delusions of grandeur. The Scriblerus Club (Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, Henry St. John, Jonathan...
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an older Feudal arrangement) should be. The Scriblerus Club wrote poetry as well as prose, and the club included among its number John Gay, who was not...
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physicians and an associate of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope in the Scriblerus Club Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) British writer with mastery in diverse...
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(published posthumously – 1766) Related Esther Johnson Esther Vanhomrigh Scriblerus Club Swift crater The House That Swift Built (1982 film) "The Reasons that...
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London audiences due to their known hostility to Gay, Pope and the Scriblerus Club. The play received seven sell-out performances, then a record for the...
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completely rebuilt. The Hanover Square development begins. 1714 March: The Scriblerus Club, which is an informal group of literary friends, is formed by Jonathan...
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(attack on John Gay, Alexander Pope, and the other members of the Scriblerus Club) Susanna Centlivre – The Cruel Gift Colley Cibber – The Non-Juror Charles...
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mathematician, court physician to Queen Anne, author, and co-founder of the Scriblerus Club. Fellow of the Royal Society (1704). Sir James Mackintosh, philosopher...
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satirical periodical, The Works of the Unlearned, from which develops the Scriblerus Club, whose members include Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Thomas Parnell...
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Verses on Occasion of Mr. Gulliver's Travels (possibly by the whole Scriblerus Club) James Thomson A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton Summer...
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