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Memoirs of the extraordinary life, works and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus / Alexander Pope and John Arbuthonot.
- Title
- Memoirs of the extraordinary life, works and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus / Alexander Pope and John Arbuthonot.
- Author
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
- Publication
- London : Hesperus, 2002.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735
- Description
- x, 101 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "In this merciless attack on eighteenth-century society, Alexander Pope expertly satirses the blind reliance on false learning that was then so prevalent. 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. And as this hallowed child grows into a man, it becomes clear that instead of being the scholar his father so desired, he is simply the inevitable offspring of a laughable generation of pseudo-intellecturals and literati"--Cover.
- Uniform Title
- Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
- Alternative Title
- Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
- Alexander Pope Scriblerus
- Scriblerus.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Satire.
- Note
- Cover title: Scriblerus.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1843910012
- OCLC
- 49736718
- SCSB-12224968
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library