The Dunciad /ˈdʌnsi.æd/ is a landmark, mock-heroic, narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728...
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Alexander Pope (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
poetry including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translations of Homer. Pope is often quoted in The Oxford Dictionary...
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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...
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(often called "the Dunces" because of Pope's successful satirizing of them in The Dunciad of 1727 and 1738) fought over central matters of the proper subject...
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Colley Cibber (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
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...
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River Fleet (redirect from The River Fleet)
the supply of water to the Metropolis". The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal. III (28): 10. Dunciad, book the second [Crosby Collection at the London...
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Augustan literature (redirect from Literature of the Georgian era)
enemies responded to The Dunciad with attacks, Pope produced the Dunciad Variorum, with a "learned" commentary upon the original Dunciad. In 1743, he added...
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Chaudhuri's The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian. Its title was inspired from the concluding couplet of Alexander Pope's The Dunciad which runs thus:...
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H. P. Lovecraft (category Deaths from colorectal cancer in the United States)
eighteenth-century Shakespearean scholar who was fictionalized in Alexander Pope's The Dunciad. Tierney 2001, p. 52; Joshi 2010b, p. 186; de Camp 1975, p. 270. Joshi...
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Pope’s satire The Dunciad (Bk 2, l. 342) and William Wordsworth's blank verse poem The Prelude (Bk X, l. 1033). These writers would have known the fountain...
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