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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... Essay on Criticism . Printed for Bernard Lintot , octavo . P Essay on Criticism in prose , octavo , 1728. by the author of the Critical History of England . divorce ' upon account of impotence ' . Despite Dennis's immoderate tone , Pope ...
... Essay on Criticism . Printed for Bernard Lintot , octavo . P Essay on Criticism in prose , octavo , 1728. by the author of the Critical History of England . divorce ' upon account of impotence ' . Despite Dennis's immoderate tone , Pope ...
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... Essay on Translated Verse ; the Essay on the Art of Poetry ; and the Essay on Criticism . ' Of WINDSOR FOREST , positive is the judgment of the affirmative Mr. JOHN DENNIS , " That it is a wretched rhapsody , impudently writ in ...
... Essay on Translated Verse ; the Essay on the Art of Poetry ; and the Essay on Criticism . ' Of WINDSOR FOREST , positive is the judgment of the affirmative Mr. JOHN DENNIS , " That it is a wretched rhapsody , impudently writ in ...
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... Essay : ' I must own , after the reception which the vilest and most immoral ribaldry hath lately met with , I was surprised to see what I had long despaired , a performance deserving the name of a poet . Such , Sir , is your work . It ...
... Essay : ' I must own , after the reception which the vilest and most immoral ribaldry hath lately met with , I was surprised to see what I had long despaired , a performance deserving the name of a poet . Such , Sir , is your work . It ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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