The Scriblerus Club

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18th-century organization literary circle satirical club

The Scriblerus Club was an early 18th-century London literary circle, including figures like Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, that satirized pretentious learning and bad taste through collaborative works.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	18th-century organization → literary circle → satirical club →
country	Kingdom of Great Britain →
dissolved	circa 1745 →
genre	satire →
hasFictionalCharacter	Martinus Scriblerus →
hasMember	Alexander Pope → Bishop Francis Atterbury → Bishop George Berkeley → Bishop George Smalridge → Bishop William King → Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery → Charles Jervas → Dr. John Freind → Dr. Richard Mead → Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer → Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke → John Arbuthnot → John Gay → Jonathan Swift → Lord Bathurst → Lord Bolingbroke → Lord Lansdowne → Lord Oxford → Lord Peterborough → Matthew Prior → Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer → Sir John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont → Sir John Vanbrugh → Sir Samuel Garth → Sir William Trumbull → Thomas Parnell → Thomas Tickell → Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (second creation) → William Congreve → William Wyndham →
inception	1713 →
influenced	later satirical writing in English literature →
language	English →
location	London →
mainTheme	critique of bad taste → satire of pretentious learning →
movement	Augustan literature →
notableWork	Contributions to The Dunciad → Miscellanies in Prose and Verse → Peri Bathous, or the Art of Sinking in Poetry → The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus →
purpose	to criticize contemporary literary taste → to ridicule pedantry → to satirize false erudition →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
John Gay →	associatedWith