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The Dunciad

This is a new edition of "The Dunciad in Four Books" of 1743, the culmination of the series of "Dunciad"s which Alexander Pope produced over the last decade and a half of his life. It comprises not only a poem, but also a mass of authorial annotation and appendices, and this new edition is the only one available which gives all the verse and the prose in a clearly laid-out form, with a full modern commentary.

Genre
satirehumor
Setting
1740s
Audience
adult
Length
long · 464 pages
Form
poetry

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