- The
Dunciad (/ˈdʌnsi.æd/) is a landmark, mock-heroic,
narrative poem by
Alexander Pope
published in
three different versions at
different times from 1728...
- his
satirical and
discursive poetry including The Rape of the Lock, The
Dunciad, and An
Essay on Criticism, and for his
translations of Homer. Pope is...
- the
chief target, the head Dunce, of
Alexander Pope's
satirical poem The
Dunciad. Cibber's
poetical work was
derided in his time and has been remembered...
-
Dulness is the
goddess who
presides over
Alexander Pope's The
Dunciad. She is the
central character,
introduced at the
start of the work.
Dulness is the...
- in more than
ordinary credit" (
Dunciad Variorum).
Bavius and
Maevius are also like the "dunces" in Pope's own
Dunciad in that
little is
remembered of...
-
Wortley Montagu, The
Female Dunciad, and The
Twickenham Hotch-Potch all came out in 1728 as answers. In 1729, Pope's
Dunciad Variorum took further, prose...
-
enemies responded to The
Dunciad with attacks, Pope
produced the
Dunciad Variorum, with a "learned"
commentary upon the
original Dunciad. In 1743, he added...
- Shakespeare, and he was the
first avatar of
Dulness in
Alexander Pope's The
Dunciad.
Lewis Theobald was the son of
Peter Theobald, an attorney, and his second...
-
title was
inspired from the
concluding couplet of
Alexander Pope's The
Dunciad which runs thus: Thy hand,
great Anarch! lets the
curtain fall; And universal...
-
thought to
depict his
brother Robert, is
adorned with the phrase. In The
Dunciad,
Alexander Pope
writes of John
Henley that he "turned his
rhetoric to buffoonry"...
