"Pranks, unfit for naming": Pope, Curll, and the "satirical grotesque".

From: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Regan, Shaun | Copyright information

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On March 28, 1716, Alexander Pope surreptitiously administered an emetic solution to the bookseller, Edmund Curll, in return for his unauthorized and (Pope claimed) potentially damaging publication of a text titled Court Poems. Drawing upon a gentlemanly model of retribution against rogues, but intimating the clemency with which he himself exercised this right to revenge, Pope wrote to John Caryll that his action had been designed to "save a fellow a beating by giving ...

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