Word: dunciad
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Perry yesterday continued his lectures on English Literature, his subject being "Pope." He discussed the Dunciad in detail and at some length, describing the literary enmities that had induced the composition of the work and giving some account of the victims "impaled like flies" who are now often remembered solely on this account. The concluding books are less personal than the first and the work ends with a very fine apostrophe. The coarse grossness of the Dunciad illustrates well the brutal spirit and thin polish of the century. After alluding to the pseudo-classical spirit that pervaded continental and English...
SCENE: Recitation in English 7. (A Senior is discoursing on the Dunciad...
...With the third book the Dunciad properly ends. But Pope was induced to add a fourth, which, like every Annex, contributes no beauty itself, and impairs the strength and effect of the rest." (This brings down the house...