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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... wrote essays under the name of Isaac Bickerstaff ; and he wrote Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) as the memoirs of Lemuel Gulliver ( Davis 1939-68 : X , II , XI ) . 21-22 . Swift is complimented for combining the abilities of two contrasted ...
... wrote essays under the name of Isaac Bickerstaff ; and he wrote Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) as the memoirs of Lemuel Gulliver ( Davis 1939-68 : X , II , XI ) . 21-22 . Swift is complimented for combining the abilities of two contrasted ...
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... wrote Verses as well as Politics ; as appears by the Poem De jure divino , etc. of De Foe , and by these lines in Cowley's Miscellanies , on the other : ' One lately did not fear / ( Without the Muses leave ) to plant Verse here . / But ...
... wrote Verses as well as Politics ; as appears by the Poem De jure divino , etc. of De Foe , and by these lines in Cowley's Miscellanies , on the other : ' One lately did not fear / ( Without the Muses leave ) to plant Verse here . / But ...
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... wrote letters to Mr. Pope : Cooke wrote in 1728 that he was not ' the author of some scurrilous Pieces in the Daily Papers ' ; that he was ' sincerely ashamed ' of the Battle , which he would not publish again ; and , least credibly of ...
... wrote letters to Mr. Pope : Cooke wrote in 1728 that he was not ' the author of some scurrilous Pieces in the Daily Papers ' ; that he was ' sincerely ashamed ' of the Battle , which he would not publish again ; and , least credibly of ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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