The DunciadMethuen & Company Limited, 1943 - 476 pages |
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Page xxxviii
Alexander Pope James Runcieman Sutherland. careful to retain as many features of the true epic as possible ; his model was , so to speak , the non - existent Margites of Homer.1 In addition to the epic features enumerated by Pope in ...
Alexander Pope James Runcieman Sutherland. careful to retain as many features of the true epic as possible ; his model was , so to speak , the non - existent Margites of Homer.1 In addition to the epic features enumerated by Pope in ...
Page xlii
... epic poem . The mockery of the epic form is there ; but in the Dunciad Pope's primary concern is not to write mock epic , but to make use of that form to satirize his enemies . The dunces come first , the Dunciad second . Sometimes ...
... epic poem . The mockery of the epic form is there ; but in the Dunciad Pope's primary concern is not to write mock epic , but to make use of that form to satirize his enemies . The dunces come first , the Dunciad second . Sometimes ...
Page 256
... Epic . Thus it being agreed that the constituent qualities of the greater Epic Hero , are Wisdom , Bravery , and Love , from whence 25 springeth heroic Virtue ; it followeth that those of the lesser Epic Hero , should be Vanity ...
... Epic . Thus it being agreed that the constituent qualities of the greater Epic Hero , are Wisdom , Bravery , and Love , from whence 25 springeth heroic Virtue ; it followeth that those of the lesser Epic Hero , should be Vanity ...
Contents
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xlix |
The Dunciad Variorum with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus I | 1 |
The Dunciad in Four Books | 247 |
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