The DunciadFans of literary lampoonery will delight in the no-holds-barred, scorched-earth satire that British poet Alexander Pope unleashes in his witty masterpiece, The Dunciad. Disgusted by the teeming waves of self-proclaimed "writers" who emerged in search of a quick buck when the growing availability of cheaply printed books made sentimental stories popular with the public, Pope took it upon himself to put these hacks in their place in an epic poem lambasting their dullness and lack of refinement. |
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Alexander Pope. You by whose care, in vain decried and curst, Still Dunce the second reigns like Dunce the first; Say how the Goddess bade Britannia sleep, And pour'd her Spirit, o'er the land and deep. In eldest time, ere mortals writ ...
Alexander Pope. You by whose care, in vain decried and curst, Still Dunce the second reigns like Dunce the first; Say how the Goddess bade Britannia sleep, And pour'd her Spirit, o'er the land and deep. In eldest time, ere mortals writ ...
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... dunce, Rememb'ring she herself was Pertness once. Now (shame to Fortune!) an ill run at play Blank'd his bold visage, and a thin third day: Swearing and supperless the hero sate, Blasphemed his gods the dice, and damn'd his fate; Then ...
... dunce, Rememb'ring she herself was Pertness once. Now (shame to Fortune!) an ill run at play Blank'd his bold visage, and a thin third day: Swearing and supperless the hero sate, Blasphemed his gods the dice, and damn'd his fate; Then ...
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... Dunces in her cause appear'd, And all who knew those Dunces to reward. Amid that area wide they took their stand, Where the tall Maypole once o'erlook'd the Strand, But now (so Anne and Piety ordain) A Church collects the saints of ...
... Dunces in her cause appear'd, And all who knew those Dunces to reward. Amid that area wide they took their stand, Where the tall Maypole once o'erlook'd the Strand, But now (so Anne and Piety ordain) A Church collects the saints of ...
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