Dunciad

Dunciad
Dunˈciad noun
Pope's epic of dunces
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  • Dunciad — La Dunciade Alexander Pope La Dunciade ou guerre des sots (The Dunciad en anglais) est un célèbre poème satirique écrit par l auteur anglais Alexander Pope au début du XVIIIe  …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Dunciad, The — /dun see ad / a poem (1728 42) by Pope, satirizing various contemporary writers. * * * …   Universalium

  • DUNCIAD, THE —    a satire of Pope s in four books, the fiercest as well as the best of his satires, in which, with merciless severity, he applies the lash to his critics, and in which Colley Cibber figures as the King of Dunces …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Dunciad, The — /dun see ad / a poem (1728 42) by Pope, satirizing various contemporary writers …   Useful english dictionary

  • The Dunciad — Alexander Pope The Dunciad /ˈd …   Wikipedia

  • The Dunciad — La Dunciade Alexander Pope La Dunciade ou guerre des sots (The Dunciad en anglais) est un célèbre poème satirique écrit par l auteur anglais Alexander Pope au début du XVIIIe  …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Colley Cibber — plays the part of Lord F …   Wikipedia

  • Augustan poetry — is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. This poetry was more explicitly political than the poetry that had preceded it, and it was… …   Wikipedia

  • Pope, Alexander — born May 21, 1688, London, Eng. died May 30, 1744, Twickenham, near London English poet and satirist. A precocious boy precluded from formal education by his Roman Catholicism, Pope was mainly self educated. A deformity of the spine and other… …   Universalium

  • Alexander Pope — Infobox Writer name = Alexander Pope caption = Alexander Pope ( c. 1727), an English poet best known for his Essay on Criticism , Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad birthdate = birth date|df=yes|1688|5|21 birthplace = London deathdate = death date… …   Wikipedia

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