Dunciad

In the same spirit the poet penned the lines of the 'Dunciad' --

A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866

I wish you also to remember these lines of Pope, and to make yourselves entirely masters of his system of ethics; because, putting Shakespeare aside as rather the world's than ours, I hold Pope to be the most perfect representative we have, since Chaucer, of the true English mind; and I think the Dunciad is the most absolutely chiselled and monumental work "exacted" in our country.

Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859

The bookseller's shop belonging to Dr. Griffiths, called the Dunciad, in the neighbourhood of Catherine-street, was another of his favourite haunts.

Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846

But even within the memory of man, the style of the "Dunciad" was hardly obsolete in "Blackwood" and the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

On that occasion he introduced a new method of making thunder (see "Dunciad," ii. 226), which was found useful by managers.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

Those were the days when, in Cibber's phrase, the author of the "Dunciad" was remarkable for his satirical itch of provocation, when there were few upon whom he did not fall in some biting epigram.

Inns and Taverns of Old London

When this was first published, the following quotation from Pope's "Dunciad" was inscribed under the print:

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler

Pope had put him into the "Dunciad," Swift had spoken of him as "the fellow who was pilloried, I forget his name," He had known oppression and poverty, the pillory and the prison.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

It is to this journey Pope alludes in his "Dunciad:" --

Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 Thomas Hanly Ball

With the publication of the "Dunciad", in 1743, Pope's literary activity ceased.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913