SCRIBLERUS CLUB

English literary group formed about 1713 to satirize "all the false tastes in learning." Among its chief members were Arbuthnot, Gay, Thomas Parnell, Pope, and Swift. Meetings of the club were discontinued after 1714. The club's major production, "Memoirs of…Martinus Scriblerus," was published in Pope's prose works in 1741, although it is considered to be primarily the work of Arbuthnot. The influence of the club is seen in Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Pope's Dunciad.

See A. Pope et al., Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus (ed. by C. Kerby-Miller, 1950; repr. 1966).

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Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
Book by John Arbuthnot, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Thomas Parnell, Robert Harley, Charles Kerby-Miller; Published for Wellesley College by Yale University Press, 1950
Subjects: Scriblerus Club
...their political neutrality; Scriblerus could wait. It is difficult...the accomplishments of the club during the period of its formal...In addition, one minor Scriblerus piece, The Origine of Sciences...The beginnings of another Scriblerus work, the Peri Bathous...
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Esto Perpetua: The Club of Dr. Johnson and His Friends, 1764-1784
Book by Lewis P. Curtis, Herman W. Liebert; Archon Books, 1963
Subjects: Great Britain--Intellectual Life
...and phil osophical researches, clubs for improve ment in the fine arts, clubs for pure diversion and merriment. 24 Clubs and associations of a much less...the Royal Society of 1662, the Scriblerus Club, and Boling brokes circle at Dawley...
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The Kingdom of Science: Literary Utopianism and British Education, 1612-1870
Book by Paul A. Olson; University of Nebraska Press, 2002
Subjects: Education--Great Britain--History, Education--Social Aspects--Great Britain, Educational Change--Great Britain--History, Utopias In Literature
...utopian hopes. The Martinus Scriblerus sequences represent the dangers...about the productions of the Scriblerus Club is easy. One finds no consistent...should come as a surprise. The Scriblerus Club, composed of Swift, Pope...
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Gulliver's Travels
Book by Jonathan Swift, Paul Turner; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Fiction, Voyages, Imaginary--Fiction
...Martinus Scriblerus. The Club consisted of Pope, Swift...Bathous , 1728 under the name of Scriblerus. But the main project was...as The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus . In chapter xvi of the Memoirs...but the idea of sending Scriblerus off on a series of imaginary...to have formed part of the Clubs original plan, and Swift...
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Slavery and Augustan Literature: Swift, Pope, Gay
Book by John Richardson; Routledge, 2003
3 The Scriblerus Club Peace preliminaries and Swift (1710...culminated in the formation of the Scriblerus Club in 1714. This is a story which...we look at the writings of Martinus Scriblerus himself, in other words the jointly...
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The Scriblerian Sublime
Journal article by Christopher Fanning; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 45, 2005
Subjects: English Augustan age, 1700-1750--Criticism and interpretation, Longinus--Criticism and interpretation, Pope, Alexander--Criticism and interpretation, Sublime, The--Criticism and interpretation, Sublimity--Criticism and interpretation
...practices of original members of the Scriblerus Club. Both Brean S. Hammond and...Correspondence: A Study of the Scriblerus Club (Montreal and Kingston...BATHETAOSIGMA: or, "Martinus Scriblerus" His Treatise of the Art of...
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"So Easy to Be Lost": Poet and Self in Pope's 'The Temple of Fame
Journal article by David Wheeler; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 29, 1993
Subjects: Fame--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Pope, Alexander--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Temple of Fame (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...witnessed the break-up of the Scriblerus Club, as Swift relocated in Ireland...consciousness in the Memoirs of Scriblerus, composed about the same time...and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus, ed. Charles Kerby-Miller...
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The Scriblerian Stage and Page: Three Hours after Marriage, Pope's "Minor" Poems, and the Problem of Genre-History
Journal article by Katherine Mannheimer; Comparative Drama, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Works, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Works, Pope, Alexander--Works, Three Hours after Marriage (Play)--Criticism and interpretation
...to the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, which, like Three Hours After...and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus, ed. Charles Kerby-Miller...move toward the formation of the Scriblerus Club was made in October 1713, when...
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Preventing Play: Annotating the Battle of the Books
Journal article by Jack Lynch; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 40, 1998
Subjects: Literature--History And Criticism, Philology
...burlesqued apparatus to the earlier edition. "Martinus Scriblerus of the Poem" and the " Dunciados Periocha " catch...proper to humanist thought. 31 Other members of the Scriblerus Club joined Swift and Pope in parodying scholarly apparatus...
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John Gay's the Fan and the "Paper War" of 1713
Journal article by Patrick J. Jr. Daly; CLIO, Vol. 29, 2000
Subjects: English literature--1713, Mock-heroic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Political sociology--Analysis, Satire--Criticism, interpretation, etc., United Kingdom--Politics and government
...friendship by this time. In early October, Gay included an excerpt of the Fan in a letter to the future secretary to the Scriblerus Club, William Fortescue, in which he wrote, "I have just finishd a Poem which I wrote since I came to Moore Park...
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Flights of Georgian Fancy: Lucy Worsley Reveals the Stories Behind the Curious Cast of Characters Who Are Painted on the Walls of the King's Grand Staircase at Kensington Palace
Magazine article by Lucy Worsley; History Today, Vol. 60, April 2010
Subjects: English painters--Works, Kensington and Chelsea, England--Buildings and facilities, Kensington and Chelsea, England--History, Kent, William--Works, Painters, English--Works, Palaces--Decoration and finishing
...As well as an eminent scientist, he was also a member of the witty and iconoclastic society of writers called the Scriblerus Club, founded in 1712, of which his friends Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope were prominent members. In Dr Arbuthnots...


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encyclopedia articles on: Scriblerus Club  - 6 results

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Scriblerus Club
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SCRIBLERUS CLUB English literary...Swift. Meetings of the club were discontinued after 1714. The clubs major production, "Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus," was published in...The influence of the club is seen in Swifts Gullivers...
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Arbuthnot, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Swift, Pope, and Gay, Arbuthnot was a member of the Scriblerus Club , organized to ridicule false tastes in learning, and was the principal author of the "Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus," first published in the quarto edition of Popes...
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Parnell, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...College, Dublin, he was archdeacon of Clogher from 1706. He was a friend of Pope and Swift and a member of the Scriblerus Club. His poems, published posthumously by Pope, include "The Night-Piece on Death" and "Hymn to Contentment...
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Swift, Jonathan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Steeles Crisis. Later Life and Works In 1713 Swift joined Pope , Arbuthnot , Gay , and others in forming the celebrated Scriblerus Club . About this time Swift became involved with another woman, Esther Vanhomrigh, the "Vanessa" of his poem Cadenus...
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Pope, Alexander
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...His attachment to the Tory party was strengthened by his warm friendship with Swift and his involvement with the Scriblerus Club . Works Popes poetry basically falls into three periods. The first includes the early descriptive poetry; the Pastorals...
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