The Dunciad, Volume 5, Part 2Methuen, 1963 - 491 pages |
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Page iii
... reader , but none more than the Dunciad . The reader whom Pope had in view was one who possessed the intellectual back- ground of a well - read amateur of letters in the early eighteenth century . This ideal reader would have a lively ...
... reader , but none more than the Dunciad . The reader whom Pope had in view was one who possessed the intellectual back- ground of a well - read amateur of letters in the early eighteenth century . This ideal reader would have a lively ...
Page xxxii
... reader is piqued by his failure to discover the individual . A still more hostile critic com- plained that " the want of Perspicuity is so notorious , that . . . it is a Darkness to be felt in ev'ry Line by ev'ry Reader . " 1 In his ...
... reader is piqued by his failure to discover the individual . A still more hostile critic com- plained that " the want of Perspicuity is so notorious , that . . . it is a Darkness to be felt in ev'ry Line by ev'ry Reader . " 1 In his ...
Page 250
... reader to turn to the passage in question in the earlier version of the poem . To reprint the commentary and appendices in their entirety would un- doubtedly have been more convenient for the reader , but would have necessitated two ...
... reader to turn to the passage in question in the earlier version of the poem . To reprint the commentary and appendices in their entirety would un- doubtedly have been more convenient for the reader , but would have necessitated two ...
Contents
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xlix |
The Dunciad Variorum with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus I | 1 |
A Letter to the Publisher II | 11 |
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