The Scriblerus Club was a small early-18th-century circle of British writers, including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, and John Arbuthnot, who joined forces to mock pretension, bad scholarship, and fashionable taste. Their shared satire shaped works that use wit and parody to expose foolishness in literature and culture.
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Pope and Swift belonged to the Scriblerus Club, where they sharpened their satire against false learning and empty literary fashion.