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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:poetry
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gptkbp:author
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gptkb:Alexander_Pope
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gptkbp:countryOfOrigin
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gptkb:United_Kingdom
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gptkbp:dedicatedTo
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gptkb:Richard_Bentley
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gptkbp:firstPublished
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1729
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gptkbp:followedBy
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gptkb:The_New_Dunciad_(1742)
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gptkbp:form
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heroic couplets
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gptkbp:genre
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satire
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The Dunciad Variorum
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gptkbp:influencedBy
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gptkb:Homer
gptkb:Virgil
gptkb:John_Dryden
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gptkbp:language
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English
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gptkbp:mainCharacter
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gptkb:Dulness
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gptkbp:notableFor
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extensive footnotes
controversial publication
use of allegory
mock-epic style
complex publication history
elaborate apparatus of notes and commentary
inclusion of commentary by Martinus Scriblerus
influence on later satire
parody of scholarly annotation
use of pseudonymous commentators
inclusion of real contemporary figures as characters
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gptkbp:parodyOf
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scholarly editions
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gptkbp:partOfSeries
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gptkb:The_Dunciad
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gptkbp:precededBy
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gptkb:The_Dunciad_(1728)
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gptkbp:publisher
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gptkb:Lawton_Gilliver
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gptkbp:setting
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gptkb:London
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gptkbp:structure
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four books
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gptkbp:subject
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literary criticism
dullness
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gptkbp:targetOfSatire
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gptkb:Thomas_Shadwell
gptkb:Colley_Cibber
gptkb:Lewis_Theobald
gptkb:Richard_Bentley
gptkb:Eliza_Haywood
gptkb:John_Dennis
gptkb:Edmund_Curll
gptkb:Grub_Street_writers
gptkb:James_Moore_Smythe
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gptkbp:theme
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corruption of culture
decline of literary standards
mock-heroic tradition
satire of literary criticism
triumph of dullness
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:The_Dunciad_in_Four_Books_(1743)
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7
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