The Head of the Dunce in Pope’s Dunciad in Four Books
Alexander Pope’s 1743 Dunciad in Four Books and its preceding iterations were a reaction to rapidly shifting eighteenth-century culture. With the rise of Grub Street hack writers and undeserving Poet Laureates like Lewis Theobald and Colley Cibber, Pope saw the fall of British civilization. The mock...
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-08-1180 |