The Dunciad: In Four BooksThis is a new edition of The Dunciad in Four Books of 1743, the culmination of the series of Dunciads which Alexander Pope produced over the last decade and a half of his life. It comprises not only a poem, but also a mass of authorial annotation and appendices, and this new edition is the only one available which gives all the verse and the prose in a clearly laid-out form, with a full modern commentary. |
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... Dulness and her son as subject , and invokes the great , her servants , to tell how she brought Britain under her power ( 1-8 ) . The speaker describes Dulness's origins and ambitions ( 9–18 ) . The work is dedicated to Jonathan Swift ...
... Dulness and her son as subject , and invokes the great , her servants , to tell how she brought Britain under her power ( 1-8 ) . The speaker describes Dulness's origins and ambitions ( 9–18 ) . The work is dedicated to Jonathan Swift ...
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... Dulness's lap ( 1–12 ) . He is led into the under- world by a slovenly sibyl , and is rowed over the Styx , past the souls of dead bad poets , to the place where they wait to be returned to the world in new bodies ( 13-34 ) . He is ...
... Dulness's lap ( 1–12 ) . He is led into the under- world by a slovenly sibyl , and is rowed over the Styx , past the souls of dead bad poets , to the place where they wait to be returned to the world in new bodies ( 13-34 ) . He is ...
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... Dulness's enterprising stupidity , which is ' born with ' her dunces , makes them want to be writers , but the poverty consequent on their ' neglect of their proper talents ' means that once they begin they cannot afford to stop . one ...
... Dulness's enterprising stupidity , which is ' born with ' her dunces , makes them want to be writers , but the poverty consequent on their ' neglect of their proper talents ' means that once they begin they cannot afford to stop . one ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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