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ONLY a very na1ve reader would care to maintain that all poetry should be
immediately self-evident, and that the poet V - should not presume upon any
knowledge that is not "common ^ knowledge." On the other hand, a poet's
references are ...
ONLY a very na1ve reader would care to maintain that all poetry should be
immediately self-evident, and that the poet V - should not presume upon any
knowledge that is not "common ^ knowledge." On the other hand, a poet's
references are ...
Page xxxii
Characters like Mummius and Paridel puzzled Pope's contemporaries, and have
never been satisfactorily identified; the satire on the type is effective enough, but
the reader is piqued by his failure to discover the individual. A still more hostile ...
Characters like Mummius and Paridel puzzled Pope's contemporaries, and have
never been satisfactorily identified; the satire on the type is effective enough, but
the reader is piqued by his failure to discover the individual. A still more hostile ...
Page 250
Notes and other prose pieces which were repeated substantially unchanged from
The Dunciad Variorum have not been reprinted, but a cross reference has been
given on every occasion to enable the reader to turn to the passage in question ...
Notes and other prose pieces which were repeated substantially unchanged from
The Dunciad Variorum have not been reprinted, but a cross reference has been
given on every occasion to enable the reader to turn to the passage in question ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION ix | xxvi |
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xlix |
The Dunciad Variorum with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus | 1 |
Copyright | |
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