1. Alexander Pope
... , the special favorite of William Wycherley, who encouraged the publication of Pope's Pastorals in Jacob Tonson's Miscellany (1709). In 1713, Pope was to find companionship and support in "The Scriblerus Club,"" a Tory brotherhood that included among its principal members Jonathan Swift, John Gay, and John Arbuthnot. Together, they inveighed against the scientific rationalism and aggressive commercialism, which, they believed, threatened the ... ...
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