The Dunciad

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/The_Dunciad
GPTKB entity
Statements (33)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf satire
gptkbp:author gptkb:Alexander_Pope
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:dedicatedTo gptkb:Richard_Bentley
gptkbp:firstPublished 1728
gptkbp:form gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:genre satire
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Dunciad
gptkbp:influenced English satire
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:John_Dryden
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:literaryPeriod Augustan poetry
gptkbp:measures heroic couplets
gptkbp:notableCharacter gptkb:Dulness
gptkb:Colley_Cibber
gptkb:Lewis_Theobald
gptkbp:notableQuote Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend
gptkbp:notableRelease gptkb:The_Dunciad_Variorum_(1729)
gptkb:The_Dunciad_in_Four_Books_(1743)
gptkb:The_New_Dunciad_(1742)
gptkbp:numberOfBooks four
gptkbp:parodyOf gptkb:poetry
gptkb:publisher
critics
contemporary writers
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Lawton_Gilliver
gptkbp:setting gptkb:London
gptkbp:subject dullness
gptkbp:theme literary criticism
decline of culture
foolishness
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Alexander_Pope
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5