- The
Dunciad /ˈdʌnsi.æd/ is a landmark, mock-heroic,
narrative poem by
Alexander Pope
published in
three different versions at
different times from 1728...
- his
satirical and
discursive poetry including The Rape of the Lock, The
Dunciad, and An
Essay on Criticism, and for his
translations of Homer. Pope is...
-
prisons were all
built in that area. In 1728
Alexander Pope
wrote in his
Dunciad, "To
where Fleet-ditch with
disemboguing streams /
Rolls the
large tribute...
-
enemies responded to The
Dunciad with attacks, Pope
produced the
Dunciad Variorum, with a "learned"
commentary upon the
original Dunciad. In 1743, he added...
- the
chief target, the head Dunce, of
Alexander Pope's
satirical poem The
Dunciad. Cibber's
poetical work was
derided in his time and has been remembered...
- in more than
ordinary credit" (
Dunciad Variorum).
Bavius and
Maevius are also like the "dunces" in Pope's own
Dunciad in that
little is
remembered of...
-
Dulness is the
goddess who
presides over
Alexander Pope's The
Dunciad. She is the
central character,
introduced at the
start of the work.
Dulness is the...
- eighteenth-century
Shakespearean scholar who was
fictionalized in
Alexander Pope's The
Dunciad.
Tierney 2001, p. 52;
Joshi 2010b, p. 186; de Camp 1975, p. 270. Joshi...
-
thought to
depict his
brother Robert, is
adorned with the phrase. In The
Dunciad,
Alexander Pope
writes of John
Henley that he "turned his
rhetoric to buffoonry"...
-
original Dunciad and
added a
critical comment by Pope
professing his
innocence and dignity. In 1743, Pope
issued a new
version of The
Dunciad ("The
Dunciad B")...
