The Scriblerus Club was an informal association of authors, based in London, that came together in the early 18th century. They were prominent figures in the Augustan Age of English letters. The nucleus of the club included the satirists Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope . Other members were John Gay , John Arbuthnot , Henry St. John and Thomas Parnell . The group was founded in 1714 and lasted until the death of the founders, finally ending in 1745. Pope and Swift are the two members whose reputations and work have the most long-lasting influence. Working collaboratively, the group created the persona of Martinus Scriblerus , through whose writings they accomplished their satirical aims. Very little of this material, however, was published until the 1740s. Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer occasionally joined the club for meetings, though he is not known to have contributed to their literary output. He, along with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, contributed to the literary productions of the club.
4-452: The club began as an effort to satirize the abuses of learning wherever they might be found, which led to The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus . The second edition of Pope's The Dunciad also contains work attributed to Martinus Scriblerus. Richard Owen Cambridge wrote a mock epic poem, the Scribleriad , where the hero is Martinus Scriblerus. Henry Fielding 's play The Welsh Opera
8-457: Is presented as a tribute to the "Scriblerians". Fielding's pen name was "Scriblerus Secundus". This article about an art or artists' organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus is an incomplete satirical work co-written ostensibly by the members of the Scriblerus Club during
12-435: The novel satirises a different fad or fashion of the period, mocking modern culture for its blind adherence both to new trends and outdated beliefs. The novel tells the story of Martinus Scriblerus' upbringing by his parents, who subject him to a range of strange customs such as refusing to allow his wet-nurse to eat beef and instead raising him solely on butter and honey, a diet supposedly advised by Eustathius. He grows up to be
16-421: The years 1713–14, including Jonathan Swift , Alexander Pope and Dr. Arbuthnot . The only completed volume was published in 1741 as a part of Alexander Pope's Works . Martinus Scriblerus was a pseudonym of Pope's which was later also adopted by George Crabbe . The "Memoirs" bears the seeds of many successful later works borne out of the club, such as Swift's Gulliver and Pope's Dunciad . Each chapter of
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