Word: dunciad
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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ENGLISH 7.- Reading. Pope. First Pastoral: Spring; Windsor Forest; An Essay on Criticism; The Rape of the Lock; Elvira to Abelard; Prologue to Cato; The Dunciad, Books...
Jealousy at the success of his Homer drew out much adverse comment from minor writers, and to crush them. Pope wrote his Dunciad. His epistles, moral essays and satires occupied his last fourteen years. His Essay on Man, although never regarded as of any philosophical value, shows well in its grace and smoothness of diction, the powers of the poet. His last years were given to didactic satires, in which he is without a rival...