The Dunciad
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The Dunciad is a landmark, mock-heroic, narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728 to 1743. The poem celebrates a goddess, Dulness, and the pro
Alexander Pope, author of The Dunciad
Frontispiece and front page to The Dunciad Variorum (1729).
Frontispiece Book II of 1760 London edition of Pope's works (Vol V), showing the Goddess surrounded by sleeping poets.
Alexander Pope by Michael Dahl
An Essay on Criticism
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An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope, published in 1711. It is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human; to forgive, divine",
The Dunciad
…the true reading of Shakespeare in all the editions ever yet published. Pope had written characters of the various "Dunces" prior to 1728. In his "Essay on Criticism", Pope describes some critics of a witless nature. In his various Moral Epistles, Pope likewise constructs characters of contemporary authors of poor…
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