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Memoirs of the extraordinary life, works and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus / Alexander Pope and John Arbuthnot.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
- Series:
- 100 pages
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- x, 101 pages ; 20 cm.
- Other Title:
- Scriblerus
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hesperus Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Rich with hilarious episodes, Scriblerus is an ingenious satire of false learning and bad taste that has much to say to the pseudo-intellectual world of today. By taking one ambitious father and his determination to do everything in his power to produce a child of genius, Pope exposes the true folly of the men of his age and their absurd veneration of the ancients. As this hallowed child grows into a man, it becomes clear that instead of being the scholar his father desired, he is simply the inevitable offspring of a laughable generation of pseudo-intellectuals and literati. Alexander Pope is the greatest English poet of the 18th century, with The Rape of the Lock regarded as his masterpiece.
- ISBN:
- 1843910012
- OCLC:
- 49736718
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