Word: dunciad
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...contains many letters, documents; and portraits of Pope and his contemporaries; a volume containing 18 letters written by Pope to William Fortescue, between 1730 and 1739; the first edition of the four parts of "The Essay on Man," the first edition of "The Rape of the Lock", and "The Dunciad...
...does it show a careful reading of Mr. Lewis' Dunciad Ecclesiastics wherein divers divines do receive a sound verbal lashing as they do well deserve. For one could even cherish a Vagabond after reading of the vices and dirty dealing of the apostolic horde. Also it might be mentioned that a local divine, after reading the first chapter did say, A dull book." He then turned to "Anthony Comstock" and swooned. Perhaps he is the gentle sould whose word is taking the latest output of the Viennese author of "Beatrice" from the shelves of greater and lesser Boston...
Underlying this Dunciad of the "Big Man on the Campus" is the Yale spirit at its best. Mr. Goldsborough is concerned first for true culture and second for Yale tradition. He does not seem to realize that the malady at Yale is not the "Big Man" attitude not the spirit of competition, but the solemn sacredness of tradition. Harvard has competitions, club-elections, and all the other inevitable paraphernalia of undergraduate activities, but they fall to hamper true culture, simply because the system is not worshipped by the majority of students...
...year 1721 "A Match at Football" was first published. Its author, Matthew Concanen, was honored by a place in Pope's Dunciad, so that he is best remembered as "a cold, long winded native of the deep". His poem describes a game between the men of Soards and those of Lusk, "adjoyning Baronies in the County of Dublin", and although the teams consisted of but six players a side, the details of play strikingly resemble those of a modern scrimmage. We read: "And now both Bands in close Embraces nmet, And Foot to Foot, and Breast to Breast were...
...most valuable items in the collection, however, are the various editions of Pope's poems and letters, there being first editions of Pope's poems, twenty-two editions of "The Eassy on Man," and twenty-six of "The Dunciad," many of them being extremely rare. This is probably the most important collection of Pope's works that has been brought together; and it makes the Harvard Library unrivalled in its collection of early eighteenth century English literature...