Dunciad, The

[duhn-see-ad]

noun

1. a poem (1728–42) by Pope, satirizing various contemporary writers.

Example Sentences

But to Mr. Vander Meulen, the author of an exhaustive study of Alexander Pope's "Dunciad," the Hinman remains a useful tool for peering past the ink on the page to find glimmers of what happened in long-vanished print shops.

From New York Times

Dunciad, the, critique on, 234, 366.

From Project Gutenberg

Pope’s Dunciad, the culmination of their long quarrel, has done its work well, and Cibber, now too often regarded merely as a pretentious dunce, has been relegated to an undeserved obscurity.

From Project Gutenberg

From this interview posterity derives from the mortified poet the full-length 534 figure of “the slashing Bentley,” in the fourth book of the Dunciad: The mighty Scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton’s strains.

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Dunciad, the, 39, 48, et seq.,

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