The Dunciad /ˈdʌnsi.æd/ is a landmark, mock-heroic, narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

enemies responded to The Dunciad with attacks, Pope produced the Dunciad Variorum, with a "learned" commentary upon the original Dunciad. In 1743, he added...

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:...

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 daughter...

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...