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Page 80
... Dunciad broke through all such attenuating strategies by going over into total denial . As the sacrificial altars of books are without bloodshed , the Dunciad is an epic without war . It has everything else , the full range of stylistic ...
... Dunciad broke through all such attenuating strategies by going over into total denial . As the sacrificial altars of books are without bloodshed , the Dunciad is an epic without war . It has everything else , the full range of stylistic ...
Page 95
... Dunciad he felt sufficiently in command to put the brakes on , and to take on competing effects without inhibition . Enormity and grandeur are essential to the apocalyptic theme , which is if anything heightened in the B - version and ...
... Dunciad he felt sufficiently in command to put the brakes on , and to take on competing effects without inhibition . Enormity and grandeur are essential to the apocalyptic theme , which is if anything heightened in the B - version and ...
Page 99
... Dunciad ( i.e. Book IV ) , but before the appearance of the full- blown Dunciad , in Four Books , which was published the following year with himself finally ' enthroned in the place of Theobald'.53 It is thus a proleptic response , but ...
... Dunciad ( i.e. Book IV ) , but before the appearance of the full- blown Dunciad , in Four Books , which was published the following year with himself finally ' enthroned in the place of Theobald'.53 It is thus a proleptic response , but ...
Contents
Pope and Slavery | 27 |
The Shadow of Friendship | 55 |
Popes Epic Idiom Revisited | 69 |
Copyright | |
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