Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus

Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus image
ISBN-10:

1843910012

ISBN-13:

9781843910015

Author(s): Pope, Alexander
Edition: first modern ed
Released: Jul 01, 2002
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
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Description:

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 so desired, he is simply the inevitable offspring of a laughable generation of pseudo-intellectuals and literati.


























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