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By Alexander Pope ... Edited and annotated by Jack Lynch ... The Poet being, in this Book, to declare the Completion of the Prophecies mention'd at the end of the former, makes a new Invocation; as the greater Poets are wont, when some high and worthy matter is to be sung.
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newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/dunciad4.html
newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/dunciad4.html
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Alexander Pope: Dunciad (1728 - 1743) ... The Dunciad is Pope's most ambitious and seriously compelling poem. The final version, The Dunciad in Four Books, had a long gestation, appearing in four different versions over a fifteen-year period between 1728 and 1743, so that we can equally well refer to the Dunciads,
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[ A Little Learning ] [ Know Thyself ] [ Elegy To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady ] [ The Rape of the Lock Canto 1 ] [ The Dunciad Book the First ] [ Ode on Solitude ]
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www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Pope/the_dunciad_...
www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Pope/the_dunciad_book_the_first.htm
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The Dunciad by Alexander Pope ... He added a fourth book when he rewrote the poem in 1742. The Dunciad acclaims the goddess Dulness, daughter of Chaos and Night, and her chosen prince. In the first edition the prince of dullness is the scholar Lewis Theobald (Tibbald);...
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www.enotes.com/dunciad-salem/dunciad-9560000207
www.enotes.com/dunciad-salem/dunciad-9560000207
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1] The Dunciad, often regarded as Pope's masterpiece, grew out of Pope's association with Swift and others in the Scriblerus Club. Although Pope did not begin work on the actual poem until around 1726, his work demonstrates a continuity with the aims of his earlier Scriblerian venture.
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The Laureate Dunces and the Death of the Panegyric; http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-1/heandunc.html: "The final, 1743 version of The Dunciad, ...
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From Dunciad ... Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand oppressed, Closed one by one to everlasting rest;
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www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Pope/Duncia...
www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Pope/Dunciad.htm
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The Dunciad ... And make one mighty dunciad of the land!"; O Muse! relate (for you can tell alone,; Wits have short memories, and Dunces none),; Relate, who first, who last resign'd to rest;; Whose heads she partly, whose completely blest;;
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www.richardbrodie.com/dunciad.htm
www.richardbrodie.com/dunciad.htm
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The first version (the "three book" Dunciad) was published in 1728. The second version, in which Pope confirmed his authorship of the work, appeared in the Dunciad Variorum in 1735. The New Dunciad, in four books and with a different hero, appeared in 1743. The poem celebrates the goddess Dulness and the progress of...
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en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dunciad
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dunciad
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