Word: dunciad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line he wrote. The clues to Pope's nature are to be found in the quality of his age, with its political-theological drama. Quennell superbly evokes this quality in a biography that spans Pope's first 40 years, ending in 1728 with the appearance of The Dunciad. The bitter personal feuds spawned by that savage satire and the illness-bedeviled years before Pope died at 56 will be the subject of the second volume...
...result of the metrical carnage he wrought in The Dunciad, it became the poet's habit never to venture out on one of his solitary walks without a brace of loaded pistols in his coat and the company of his Great Dane, Bounce. Though he never had occasion to fire the weapons in anger, and Bounce never got to take a piece out of an embittered literary footpad, Pope's anxiety was far from groundless...