The Dunciad in Four Books

by Rumbold; Valerie

• ISBN13: 9781408204160
• ISBN10: 1408204169
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317863236
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780582089242, 9781408204160
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-01-13
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

A paperback edition of Pope's notoriously difficult - and notoriously brilliant - The Dunciad in Four Books.This new edition of Pope'sDunciadis clearly presented and benefits from a number of features: Explanatory notes are included on the same page as Pope's text and are written in a clear style The prose sections - an integral part of the work - have been annotated as fully as the verse A substantial introduction offers a stimulating and helpful approach to the work, and the bibliography includes suggestions for further reading

Author Biography

Valerie Rumbold is a Reader in English at the University of Birmingham. She has published a range of articles on Pope and on eighteenth-century women writers and is a member of the editorial team on the five volume The Poems of Alexander Pope in the Longman Annotated English Poets series. Her book Women's Place in Pope's World (1989) was awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
Frontispiece	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Map: The London area in the 1740s	p. 20
The Dunciad in Four Books (1743)	p. 21
Advertisement to the Reader	p. 25
By Authority	p. 27
Epigraphs	p. 29
A Letter to the Publisher	p. 31
Testimonies of Authors	p. 43
Martinus Scriblerus of the Poem	p. 69
Ricardus Aristarchus of the Hero of the Poem	p. 75
Book I	p. 87
Book II	p. 143
Book III	p. 215
Book IV	p. 265
Appendix	p. 361
Prefixed to the first Editions	p. 363
A List of Books, Papers, and Verses	p. 367
Advertisement to 1729	p. 372
Advertisement to the Fourth Book	p. 374
The Guardian on Pastorals	p. 376
Of the Poet Laureate	p. 384
Advertisement, 1730	p. 388
A Parallel	p. 390
By the Author A Declaration	p. 396
Index of Persons	p. 398
Index of Matters	p. 401
Bibliography	p. 409
Selective index to editorial matter	p. 442
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