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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Dunciad"”.

  1. The Role of Richard Savage in Composing Pope's Dunciad

    Wilmoth, Traci CarolVirginia Tech2007

    … is that he contributed information to Pope's Dunciad Variorum (1729) and that Pope later contributed large sums to Savage's support. Pope was the driving force behind Savage's retirement to Wales, possibly alluded to in Johnson's London (1738), as well as the chief financial contributor to …

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  2. The changing function of classical allusion in The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost and The Dunciad

    Rofe, David1979

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  3. The changing function of classical allusion in The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost and The Dunciad

    Rofe, David1979

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  4. Pope's portraiture : a critical examination of portraiture in the poetry of Alexander Pope

    Hay-Whitton, Alexander MarkDepartment of English Language and Literature1986

    … examination or elucidation of human nature. The Dunciad and An Essay on Man are examples of the two interests as opposite extremes; but in most of Pope's work, the author maintains, the functions are complementary.

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  5. "Ourselves to know" : the problem of evil in the poetry of Alexander Pope.

    Mitchell, Philip I.Baylor University.2005

    … of evil. In chapter five, I argue that The Dunciad is an insistence that God judge wickedness. Pope brings together the Rablesian grotesque with mock-apocalypse and mock-epic. Pope's treatment shares a similar pattern with his theodician defense of his worldview——a stable center is …

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  6. Alexander Pope and the Writing of Thought: Representations of Revision and Composition in Pope’s Works

    Rane, JaiUniversity of Cambridge2021

    … particularly The Rape of the Locke and The Dunciad. The second chapter explores the ways in which Pope’s portrayal of in-text self-correction in Eloisa to Abelard characterises Eloisa as both a heroine and a writer. I argue that Eloisa’s meandering movements of self-doubt ultimately betray …

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