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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... parody of the biblical and Miltonic creation stories ( Fowler 1998 : Paradise Lost , II.890-920 , 911 ; Battestin ... parodied by Dryden in a context of cultural decline ( The Dispensary 1699 : VI.96-7 ; Waller 1905 : 244 ; Mac Flecknoe ...
... parody of the biblical and Miltonic creation stories ( Fowler 1998 : Paradise Lost , II.890-920 , 911 ; Battestin ... parodied by Dryden in a context of cultural decline ( The Dispensary 1699 : VI.96-7 ; Waller 1905 : 244 ; Mac Flecknoe ...
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... parody of a grave and cel- ebrated passage is a ridicule of that passage . The reader therefore , if he will , may call this a parody of the author's own Similitude in the Essay on Man , Ep . iv : ' As the small pebble ' , etc .; but ...
... parody of a grave and cel- ebrated passage is a ridicule of that passage . The reader therefore , if he will , may call this a parody of the author's own Similitude in the Essay on Man , Ep . iv : ' As the small pebble ' , etc .; but ...
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... parody from Aesop , and in 1743 he echoes the motif again at IV.613 . ( Dutchmen were the proverbial butt of low humour , and such jokes may also have acquired a political edge after the Revolution which installed the Dutch William III ...
... parody from Aesop , and in 1743 he echoes the motif again at IV.613 . ( Dutchmen were the proverbial butt of low humour , and such jokes may also have acquired a political edge after the Revolution which installed the Dutch William III ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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