The Dunciad, Volume 5Methuen, 1943 - 476 pages |
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... reader would care to maintain that all poetry should be immediately self - evident , and that the poet should not ... reader , but none more than the Dunciad . The reader whom Pope had in view was one who possessed the intellectual ...
... reader would care to maintain that all poetry should be immediately self - evident , and that the poet should not ... reader , but none more than the Dunciad . The reader whom Pope had in view was one who possessed the intellectual ...
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... reader is piqued by his failure to discover the individual . A still more hostile critic com- plained that " the want of Perspicuity is so notorious , that . . . it is a Darkness to be felt in ev'ry Line by ev'ry Reader . " 1 In his ...
... reader is piqued by his failure to discover the individual . A still more hostile critic com- plained that " the want of Perspicuity is so notorious , that . . . it is a Darkness to be felt in ev'ry Line by ev'ry Reader . " 1 In his ...
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... reader must assent to , when he sees them " explain'd with that ease and perspicuity in which they are " delivered . As for those which are the most known and the most " receiv'd , they are placed in so beautiful a light , and ...
... reader must assent to , when he sees them " explain'd with that ease and perspicuity in which they are " delivered . As for those which are the most known and the most " receiv'd , they are placed in so beautiful a light , and ...
Contents
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xlix |
The Dunciad Variorum with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus I | 1 |
The Dunciad in Four Books | 247 |
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