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Scriblerus Club English literary group formed about 1713 to satirize "all the false tastes in learning." Among its chief members were Arbuthnot, Gay, Thomas Parnell, Pope, and Swift. Meetings of the club were discontinued after 1714. The club's major production, "Memoirs of … Martinus Scriblerus," was published in Pope's prose works in 1741, although it is considered to be primarily the work of Arbuthnot. The influence of the club is seen in Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Pope's Dunciad.

Bibliography: See A. Pope et al., Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus (ed. by C. Kerby-Miller, 1950; repr. 1966).

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Scriblerus Club, an association of which Swift, Arbuthnot, T. Parnell, Pope, and Gay were members, and the earl of Oxford ( R. Harley) a regularly invited associate member. The group appears to have met from January to July 1714. Its object was to ridicule ‘all the false tastes in learning’, but nothing was produced under the name of Martinus Scriblerus for some years.

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