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The Dunciad

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The Dunciad (1743)
by Alexander Pope

'The Dunciad' first appeared in print in 1728, as a poem of some 920 lines in three books. The first 'Variorum' edition, with notes and elements of the 'critical apparatus', appeared in 1729, the poem having grown to 1014 lines, still in three books. In 1742 appeared the 'New Dunciad', a work of 618 lines which subsequently became Book IV. It was not until October 1743 that a complete edition of the four books and the associated 'critical apparatus' appeared; this is a transcription of that edition. [Based on Alexander Pope: A Bibliography Volume 1, Part 1 (1922), and Alexander Pope: A Bibliography Volume 1, Part 2 (1927), both by Reginald Harvey Griffith]

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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.


To which are added,

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

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


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


THE

DUNCIAD,

IN

FOUR BOOKS.

with the

Prolegomena of Scriblerus,

and

Notes Variorum.


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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