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      Paperback Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus Book
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      ISBN: 1843910012

      ISBN13: 9781843910015

      Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus

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      This eighteenth-century satire is the product of a distinguished club whose members included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, and Robert Harley. Together they set out to lampoon bad taste in learning and the arts by publishing the errors and pretensions of the fictional Martinus Scriblerus. With the death of Queen Anne the group disbanded, leaving Pope to finish the project thirty years later. This long-neglected masterpiece is accompanied by a preface that sets the Scriblerus club in its historical context and extensive notes that clarify the many allusions and discuss the themes of each chapter. Still amusing, the work is also an invaluable source of information on Augustan taste in such areas as education, music, philosophy, and science. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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      The beginning of the "Scriblerian" tradition in English literature

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      The "Scriblerians," as they were called, were a group of writers/friends in 18th Century England who congregated periodically and wrote texts together making fun of their contemporaries. Their first work together was this small book-- "The Memoires of Martinus Scriblerus" ... etc., "Scriblerus" for short. Among these writers were two very famous individuals: Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. Both Pope and Swift were somewhat...

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