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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... fire: A Gothic library! of Greece and Rome Well purged, and worthy Settle, Banks, and Broome. But, high above, more solid Learning shone, The classics of an age that heard of none; There Caxton slept, with Wynkyn at his side, One clasp ...
... fire: A Gothic library! of Greece and Rome Well purged, and worthy Settle, Banks, and Broome. But, high above, more solid Learning shone, The classics of an age that heard of none; There Caxton slept, with Wynkyn at his side, One clasp ...
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... fire. Some Daemon stole my pen (forgive th' offence), And once betray'd me into common sense: Else all my prose and verse were much the same; This prose on stilts, that poetry fall'n lame. Did on the stage my fops appear confin'd? My ...
... fire. Some Daemon stole my pen (forgive th' offence), And once betray'd me into common sense: Else all my prose and verse were much the same; This prose on stilts, that poetry fall'n lame. Did on the stage my fops appear confin'd? My ...
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... fire! Not wrap up oranges to pelt your sire! O! pass more innocent, in infant state, To the mild limbo of our Father Tate: Or peaceably forgot, at once be blest In Shadwell's bosom with eternal rest! Soon to that mass of nonsense to ...
... fire! Not wrap up oranges to pelt your sire! O! pass more innocent, in infant state, To the mild limbo of our Father Tate: Or peaceably forgot, at once be blest In Shadwell's bosom with eternal rest! Soon to that mass of nonsense to ...
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... fires; King John in silence modestly expires: No merit now the dear Nonjuror claims, Molière's old stubble in a moment flames. Tears gush'd again, as from pale Priam's eyes, When the last blaze sent Ilion to the skies. Rous'd by the ...
... fires; King John in silence modestly expires: No merit now the dear Nonjuror claims, Molière's old stubble in a moment flames. Tears gush'd again, as from pale Priam's eyes, When the last blaze sent Ilion to the skies. Rous'd by the ...
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