The Dunciad

by Alexander Pope

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This is an authorized facsimile of the original book, and was
produced in 1970 by microfilm-xerography by University
Microfilms, A Xerox Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

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THE

DUNCIAD,

IN

FOUR BOOKS.

Printed according to the complete Copy
found in the Year 1742.

WITH THE

Prolegomena of Scriblerus,

AND

Notes Variorum.

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To which are added,

Several Notes now first publish'd, the Hypercritics of Aristarchus, and his Dissertation on the Hero of the Poem.

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Tandem Phœbus adest, morsusque inferre parantem
Congelat, et patulos, ut erant, indurat hiatus.Ovid.

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LONDON,
Printed for M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-noster-row,
MDCCXLIII.

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THE

DUNCIAD,

IN

FOUR BOOKS.

with the

Prolegomena of Scriblerus,

and

Notes Variorum.

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Contents (not listed in original)

• Advert
• Advertisement to the Reader
• By Authority
• A Letter to the Publisher, occasioned by the first correct edition of the Dunciad
• Martinus Scriblerus
• Testimonies of Authors
• Martinus Scriblerus of the Poem
• Ricardus Aristarchus of the hero of the poem
• Book the First
• Book the Second
• Book the Third
• Book the Fourth
• Appendix I. Preface to the first imperfect edition printed in 1727
• Appendix II. A list of books, papers and verses
• Appendix III. Advertisement to the first edition, 1729
• Appendix IV. Advertisement to the first edition of book 4
• Appendix V. The Guardian
• Appendix VI. Of the Poet Laureate
• Appendix VII. Advertisement printed in the Journals, 1730
• Appendix VIII. A parallel of the characters of Mr Dryden and Mr Pope
• By the Author, a Declaration
• Index of Persons
• Index of Matters