The Scriblerus by Alexander Pope
An account of the birth, the infancy, the schooling, the diet-planning, the unconventional love affairs and the attainments of this child prodigy, The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus is surely the funniest imaginary biography ever written.
You can almost taste the Swiftian tang in its bitterer momentsThis is great satire, not simply the working out of a private joke among a powerful literary clique. Its subject is that old favourite, the perfectibility of mankind: an old favourite because it's the most comically useless of all enterprises. And this is why it's still fresh and worth reading today. -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian *
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the pre-eminent poet of his day, and is most famous for his mockheroic poem The Rape of the Lock. With John Gay, Jonathan Swift and John Arbuthnot, he formed the Scriblerus Club.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847491060 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847491065 |
| Title | The Scriblerus |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Alma Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-03-22 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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