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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... lines of the Essay on Criticism and in To Arbuthnot ( lines 135–6 ) ( OAC : I , 31–2 ) . Sir William Trumbull ( 1639-1716 ) retired to Windsor Forest after a career in politics and diplomacy . He became a valued friend of Pope , who ...
... lines of the Essay on Criticism and in To Arbuthnot ( lines 135–6 ) ( OAC : I , 31–2 ) . Sir William Trumbull ( 1639-1716 ) retired to Windsor Forest after a career in politics and diplomacy . He became a valued friend of Pope , who ...
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... lines into his revision of Wycherley's ' A Panegyrick on Dulness ' , and the laborious art of a dull writer is said to ' hang on lead , to facilitate and enforce our descent ' in Peri Bathous ( PW : II , 190–91 ; Vander Meulen 1991 : 5 ) ...
... lines into his revision of Wycherley's ' A Panegyrick on Dulness ' , and the laborious art of a dull writer is said to ' hang on lead , to facilitate and enforce our descent ' in Peri Bathous ( PW : II , 190–91 ; Vander Meulen 1991 : 5 ) ...
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... lines as ' a compliment ... to that divine genius ' , a revision which Warburton took to constitute ' a satire on the folly by which he himself had been misled . This would pre- sumably imply that the first version had blamed Newton for ...
... lines as ' a compliment ... to that divine genius ' , a revision which Warburton took to constitute ' a satire on the folly by which he himself had been misled . This would pre- sumably imply that the first version had blamed Newton for ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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