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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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Scriblerus Club	11
The Scriblerus Club canonical	2
satirical Scriblerus Club	1

Statements (51)

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 ⓘ George Berkeley ⓘ surface form: Bishop George Berkeley Bishop Francis Atterbury ⓘ surface form: 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 Peterborough ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ John Vanbrugh ⓘ surface form: Sir John Vanbrugh Sir Samuel Garth ⓘ Sir William Trumbull ⓘ Thomas Parnell ⓘ Thomas Tickell ⓘ Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford ⓘ surface form: 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, England ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ