(P/B) SCRIBLERUS

Παρουσίαση

Intellectual brilliance has been sought after for generations, yet could it ever be possible to manufacture genius, to plan, create and train a boy to become a fully-fledged learned man? For some it seems this has been a very real quest. In this merciless attack on eighteenth-century society, Alexander Pope expertly satirises the blind reliance on false learning that was then so prevalent. 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. Laden with comic episodes, Scriblerus' satire of false learning and bad taste has much to say to the world of today. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Foreword by Peter Ackroyd
Scriblerus
Notes
Biographical note