The Dunciad
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The Dunciad is Alexander Pope’s satirical mock-epic poem that attacks the spread of mediocrity and cultural decline in early 18th-century Britain.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Dunciad canonical | 6 |
| The Dunciad Variorum | 1 |
| The New Dunciad | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mock-epic poem
ⓘ
poem ⓘ satirical poem ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
The Dunciad
ⓘ
surface form:
The Dunciad Variorum
The Dunciad ⓘ
surface form:
The New Dunciad
|
| associatedWith |
Quarrels of Authors
ⓘ
surface form:
Pope–Cibber literary feud
Pope–Theobald controversy ⓘ |
| author | Alexander Pope ⓘ |
| centralFigure | Dulness ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| criticizes |
Grub Street
ⓘ
surface form:
Grub Street publishing
commercial booksellers ⓘ low literary standards ⓘ political corruption ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1728 ⓘ |
| genre |
mock-heroic
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| influenced |
18th-century literary criticism
ⓘ
later English satire ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Homeric epics
ⓘ
John Dryden ⓘ Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ |
| literaryForm | narrative poem ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Augustan literature ⓘ |
| majorRevisionPublicationDate |
1742
ⓘ
1743 ⓘ |
| meter | heroic couplets ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
allegorical representation of stupidity and dullness
ⓘ
extensive notes and commentary in Variorum edition ⓘ mock-heroic invocation of the Muse ⓘ |
| numberOfBooks |
3
ⓘ
4 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| parodies |
Homer
ⓘ
Virgil ⓘ classical epic ⓘ |
| partOf | Alexander Pope's satirical works corpus ⓘ |
| periodOfComposition | late 1720s ⓘ |
| personSatirized |
Colley Cibber
ⓘ
Grub Street writers ⓘ Lewis Theobald ⓘ booksellers ⓘ hack writers ⓘ |
| primaryTheme |
attack on mediocrity
ⓘ
commercialization of publishing ⓘ corruption of literature ⓘ cultural decline ⓘ |
| revisedEditionPublicationDate | 1729 ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 18th-century Britain ⓘ |
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Dunciad Variorum
this entity surface form:
The New Dunciad