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Poem by Alexander Pope
The Dunciad (/ˈdʌnsi.æd/) is a landmark, mock-heroic, narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728
The_Dunciad
English poet (1688–1744)
Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712–1717), The Dunciad (1728–1743), and for his translations of Homer. Pope is often quoted in The Oxford Dictionary
Alexander_Pope
English actor-manager, playwright, and poet laureate
the chief target, the head Dunce, of Alexander Pope's satirical poem The Dunciad. Cibber's poetical work was derided in his time and has been remembered
Colley_Cibber
English writer
and he was the first avatar of Dulness in Alexander Pope's The Dunciad. Lewis Theobald was the son of Peter Theobald, an attorney, and his second wife,
Lewis_Theobald
1730 play by Henry Fielding
borrowed characters from the work of the club's members, such as the Goddess of Nonsense, influenced by Pope's character from The Dunciad, Dulness, who is at
The_Author's_Farce
18th century satirical work by the Scriblerus Club
The "Memoirs" bears the seeds of many successful later works borne out of the club, such as Swift's Gulliver and Pope's Dunciad. Each chapter of the novel
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
Memoirs_of_Martinus_Scriblerus
1987 non-fiction book by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Chaudhuri's The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian. Its title was inspired from the concluding couplet of Alexander Pope's The Dunciad which runs thus:
Thy_Hand,_Great_Anarch!
Poem
Alexander Pope's The Dunciad with a substitution of Hill's name, which represents Smart's debt to Pope for the form and style of The Hilliad as well as
The_Hilliad
Subterranean river in London, England
(January 1840). "On the supply of water to the Metropolis". The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal. III (28): 10. Dunciad, book the second "Crosby Collection"
River_Fleet
in more than ordinary credit" (Dunciad Variorum). Bavius and Maevius are also like the "dunces" in Pope's own Dunciad in that little is remembered of
Bavius
1728 satirical poem by James Ralph
Sawney: An Heroic Poem. Occasion’d by the Dunciad is an anonymous satirical poem of about 300 lines in blank verse, issued in London on 26 June 1728 and
Sawney_(poem)
Painting by William Hogarth
third state plate produced in 1740. The scene was probably inspired by Alexander Pope's satirical poem The Dunciad. It depicts a scene in a small, dingy
The_Distrest_Poet
Style of British literature
enemies responded to The Dunciad with attacks, Pope produced the Dunciad Variorum, with a "learned" commentary upon the original Dunciad. In 1743, he added
Augustan_literature
British publisher and bookseller (c. 1675–1747)
In 1729, Pope's Dunciad Variorum took further, prose swipes at Curll, and Curll produced The Curliad: a Hypercritic upon the Dunciad Variorum. It contained
Edmund_Curll
Sicilian natural fountain that features in mythology and literature
Pope's satire The Dunciad (Bk 2, l. 342) and William Wordsworth's blank verse poem The Prelude (Bk X, l. 1033). These writers would have known the fountain
Fountain_of_Arethusa
Magazine
disclaimed involvement), continuing the satirical project begun with The Dunciad; contemporary observers described the paper as inspired—and probably funded—by
Grub_Street_Journal
Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London (1667–1735)
Scriblerus, and possibly The Dunciad), and for inventing the figure of John Bull. In his mid-life, Arbuthnot, complaining of the work of Edmund Curll, among
John_Arbuthnot
1734 play
Allardyce. A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama: 1700-1750. CUP Archive, 1927. Rumbold, Valerie. The Dunciad in Four Books. Routledge, 2014. v t e
The_Lady's_Revenge
American writer (1890–1937)
eighteenth-century Shakespearean scholar who was fictionalized in Alexander Pope's The Dunciad. Tierney 2001, p. 52; Joshi 2010b, p. 186; de Camp 1975, p. 270. Joshi
H._P._Lovecraft
17th/18th-century English playwright and tavern keeper
The Dunciad. The Force of Friendship (1710) The Generous Husband (1711) The Wife's Relief (1711) The Successful Pyrate (1712) The Victim (1714) The Country
Charles_Johnson_(writer)
1785 poem by Robert Burns
couplet in Alexander Pope's satire The Dunciad. The poem was written in a Habbie stanza with the stanza six lines long and the rhyme scheme AAABAB. Burns used
Address_to_the_Devil
Poem written by Henry Carey
(as, for example, in The Dunciad in 1727), as he had been renamed by the poem, and Carey was referred to as "Namby Pamby Carey". The poem sold well and
Namby-pamby
Latin phrase meaning "I shall either find a way or make one"
and now thought to depict his brother Robert, is adorned with the phrase. In The Dunciad, Alexander Pope writes of John Henley that he "turned his rhetoric
Inveniam_viam
English political writer and historian
companion of Benjamin Franklin in the 1720s, he later worked in Grub Street and was singled out by Alexander Pope in The Dunciad. His writings ranged across
James_Ralph
Style of 18th century British poetry
(often called "the Dunces" because of Pope's successful satirizing of them in The Dunciad of 1727 and 1738) fought over central matters of the proper subject
Augustan_poetry
Form of poetry that tells a story
The Rape of Lucrece, Venus and Adonis, The Lover's Complaint, The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare Hudibras by Samuel Butler The Dunciad
Narrative_poetry
1728 blank-verse poem by James Ralph
Thomson’s The Seasons. Night received little contemporary notice until Alexander Pope, after Ralph answered the first edition of the Dunciad with Sawney
Night_(Ralph_poem)
British lawyer (1686–1744)
literary form. Pope named Jacob as one of the dunces in his 1728 Dunciad, referring to Jacob as "the blunderbuss of the law". Jacob is remembered well for his
Giles_Jacob
American bibliographer
historical account of the composition and production of the Alexander Pope poem, "The Dunciad" through the 1728 edition: Pope’s Dunciad of 1728: A History
David_L._Vander_Meulen
Lack of intelligence
Bounded rationality Dumbing down The Dunciad Dunning–Kruger effect Dysrationalia Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Genius Gullibility
Stupidity
Series of classic literature
correspondence. For example, the Major Works edition of Alexander Pope includes the major poems like The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad, alongside prose essays
Oxford_World's_Classics
British writer (1685–1750)
Alexander Pope, he received in return a mention in The Dunciad, which led to a controversy between the two writers. Afterwards a reconciliation took place
Aaron_Hill_(writer)
English political writer
target for the Whig opposition Craftsman and Fog's Journal. He was also satirised in verse, Alexander Pope for example attacked him in the Dunciad (Bk. ii
William_Arnall
12th-century prison in London
satirised as "Curll's Corinna" in Pope's Dunciad, was believed to have collaborated with Curll on Codrus, or, 'The Dunciad' Dissected (1728) while in prison
Fleet_Prison
One hundred years, from 1701 to 1800
Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 1725: The New Science by Giambattista Vico 1726: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 1728: The Dunciad by Alexander Pope (publication
18th_century
1709 poem written by Alexander Pope
Pastorals were some of the first poetical works of Alexander Pope to appear in print, when they were published in the sixth part of Jacob Tonson's Poetical
Pastorals_(Pope)
English translator and accountant
praised." Swift satirized Ozell in the Introduction to Polite Conversation, and Pope mentioned Ozell again in The Dunciad. In that poem, Dulness shows her
John_Ozell
American satiric poem
Connecticut Magazine.[page needed] The poem drew inspiration from Alexander Pope's satiric epics such as The Dunciad which used a pseudo-classical setting
The_Anarchiad
Writer who produces low-quality mass-appeal work
and available for hire." In 1728, Alexander Pope wrote The Dunciad, which was a satire of "the Grub-street Race" of commercial writers who worked in Grub
Hack_writer
18th Century association of English writers
The second edition of Pope's The Dunciad also contains work attributed to Martinus Scriblerus. Richard Owen Cambridge wrote a mock epic poem, the Scribleriad
Scriblerus_Club
English author
retorted, ‘It may be so; but, thank God! my name is not at full length in the “Dunciad.”’ His poems were chiefly occasional verse intended to be set to music
John_Lockman_(author)
English author and translator
who ran afoul of Alexander Pope and was mentioned as one of the "dunces" in Pope's Dunciad. His father was an innkeeper. He was educated at Felsted. Cooke
Thomas_Cooke_(author)
criticism in general in the tradition of A Tale of a Tub and The Dunciad Variorum. Regardless of the humorous elements, the notes do reveal Fielding's
The_Tragedy_of_Tragedies
English dramatist (1701–1764)
with a line in the Dunciad. He also published, in 1753, a translation (1753) of the Ars Poetica of Horace, which he dedicated to the Earl of Halifax
William Popple (colonial administrator)
William_Popple_(colonial_administrator)
Private school in Westminster, England
ruthless discipline by the birch, immortalised in Pope's Dunciad. Busby prayed publicly up School for the safety of the Crown, on the very day of Charles
Westminster_School
17th/18th-century English poet and politician
of mocking Philips, who figured in the Bathos and the Dunciad, as Macer in the Characters; and in the instructions to a porter how to find Edmund Curll's
Ambrose_Philips
British priest, theologian, and author (1689–1758)
republished probably in 1739, under the title of Remarks on the Divine Legation. They earned him a place in the Dunciad, Alexander Pope, in 1742, inserting
William_Webster_(theologian)
Topics referred to by the same term
goddess in The Dunciad Dully, a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dullness
Dullness
1735 quotation by Alexander Pope
uses a metaphor of a silkworm spinning that Pope had already used in The Dunciad to refer to bad poets. "Ass's milk" was at that time a common tonic,
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Who_breaks_a_butterfly_upon_a_wheel?
English poem by Alexander Pope
appears in Pope's later satire, The Dunciad. Thomas Rymer and Jonathan Swift were among other critics: Rymer, who had the strongest critique said, "till
An_Essay_on_Criticism
Selected Poems, The Essay on Criticism, The Moral Essays, The Dunciad. London: Longman. pp. 111, 207–208. Wordsworth, C. (1842). The Correspondence of
Ludolph_Küster
Problem of constructing equal-area shapes
and female nature". By 1742, when Alexander Pope published the fourth book of his Dunciad, attempts at circle-squaring had come to be seen as "wild and
Squaring_the_circle
1713 poem by Alexander Pope
The first part of it, which relates to the country, in the year 1704, at the same time with the Pastorals. The latter part was not added till the year
Windsor-Forest
Imitative work created humorously from original work
Swift The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope Namby Pamby by Henry Carey Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift The Dunciad by
Parody
Literature written in the English language
matched the gravity of a subject. At the same time, the mock-heroic was at its zenith and Pope's Rape of the Lock (1712–1717) and The Dunciad (1728–1743)
English_literature
English poet
was an English poet and "dunce" in Alexander Pope's writings (both in The Dunciad and in Peri Bathos). Welsted was an accomplished writer who composed
Leonard_Welsted
Latin motto of the Kingdom of Scotland
weaknesses and prejudices, and bore the stamp of the national motto, Nemo me impune lacessit. Mengel, Elias F. (1973). "The Dunciad Illustrations". Eighteenth-Century
Nemo_me_impune_lacessit
English writer
Pope in Pope's Dunciad and his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and as an enemy of Jonathan Swift. Due to Pope's caricature of Gildon as well as the volume and rapidity
Charles_Gildon
(The Dunciad), more recent assessments of his life and career see him as an important figure in the development of historiography, especially in the popularization
Nathaniel_Crouch
English Anglican priest (1606–1695)
in the 1743 edition of The Dunciad. The ghost of Busby comes forward, carrying a birch rod "dripping with Infants' blood, and Mothers' tears" (The Greater
Richard_Busby
1742 novel by Henry Fielding
Pope's Dunciad, is identified in the first chapter of the novel as another offender against propriety, morality and literary value. The impetus for the novel
Joseph_Andrews
prominent figures in the fashionable world. In 1712 Pope sent them his 'Rape of the Lock' and his ‘Miscellany’ (Carruthers, p. 79); in 1713 the sisters were corresponding
Martha_Blount
English literary scholar and critic
April 2018. McLaverty, James (1984). "The Mode of Existence of Literary Works of Art: The Case of the "Dunciad Variorum"". Studies in Bibliography. Bateson
F._W._Bateson
via Google Books McLaverty, J., "Pope and Giles Jacob's Lives of the Poets: The Dunciad as Alternative Literary History", article in Modern Philology, Vol
1720_in_poetry
The Dunciad by associating "Roome's funereal frown" with the "tremendous brow" of William Popple and the "fierce eye" of Philip Horneck. (The Dunciad
Edward_Roome
Historiographical concept
claims the places learning has departed from. The metaphor of the translatio stultitiae informs Alexander Pope's Dunciad, and particularly book IV of the Greater
Translatio_studii
Literature written in or related to the United Kingdom
include: The Rape of the Lock (1712; enlarged in 1714); a translation of the Iliad (1715–20); a translation of the Odyssey (1725–26); The Dunciad (1728;
British_literature
English procuress and brothel-keeper
In The Dunciad, Alexander Pope warns not to "... lard your words with Mother Needham's style". Pope mentions her once more at the end of The Dunciad (1728)
Elizabeth_Needham
British writer (bap. 1624–1712)
caricatured Howard as the "poet Ninny" in his first play, The Sullen Lovers (1668). Alexander Pope included a mention of him in The Dunciad, Book 1, line 297
Edward_Howard_(playwright)
British publisher (1685–1739)
Alexander Pope feigned the imprint of Anne Dodd for the early versions of The Dunciad, probably as an extension of the poem's parody of the emerging culture
Anne_Dodd
Australian poet and essayist (1907–2000)
and Robertson. New Poems: 1965–1969 (1969) Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Dunciad Minor: An Heroik Poem (1970) Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. Collected
A._D._Hope
English actor and playwright (1703–1758)
satirised Theophilus Cibber in his Dunciad as a youth who "thrusts his person full into your face" (III 132). On the stage, he was famous for playing Pistol
Theophilus_Cibber
Literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody
write his satirical Dunciad. Alexander Pope (b. May 21, 1688) was a satirist known for his Horatian satirist style and translation of the Iliad. Famous throughout
Satire
James Ralph. The Grub Street Journal (1730–738). Journal inspired by Alexander Pope's Dunciad The Gentleman's Magazine (1731–1907). Monthly. The London Magazine
List of 18th-century British periodicals
List_of_18th-century_British_periodicals
English writer and book collector (1789–1864)
next turned his attention to the poetasters and petty journalists of the day, and these he satirised in The Modern Dunciad, a satire, with notes biographical
George_Daniel_(writer)
Topics referred to by the same term
Mathesis, fictional characters in The Dunciad by Alexander Pope and A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll Mathesis Publications, the publisher of Ancient Philosophy
Mathesis
translations and imitations; Volume 4 includes The Dunciad (see also Works 1717, 1735 and 1737) Elizabeth Rowe, The History of Joseph James Thomson, last two
1736_in_poetry
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1737 to 1747
restoring the Convocation. Alexander Pope attacked him in the 1743 version of his The Dunciad (book II, 323). Potter died on 10 October 1747. His Theological
John_Potter_(bishop)
English writer
blank verse (London, ‘at the Dunciad in Ludgate Street,’ 1748), and another piece in praise of Johnson's ‘Irene,’ called ‘The Power of Beauty’ (printed
Robert_Shiels
buildings and ornaments. Alexander Pope's satirical poem The Dunciad. Daniel Defoe's A Plan of the English Commerce. 9 January – Thomas Warton, poet (died
1728_in_Great_Britain
West End theatre in London
satirised in Alexander Pope's Dunciad. In 1713, Barton Booth replaced Doggett. On 2 March 1717 was the premiere of the ballet The Loves of Mars and Venus choreographed
Theatre_Royal,_Drury_Lane
British translator (1690–1769)
the Whitehall Evening Post and the London Journal. Alexander Pope satirized the London Journal by name in The Dunciad, and Duncombe had written a letter
William_Duncombe
Early illustrated copy of Virgil
made in Rome in around 400 CE, and is one of the oldest surviving sources for the text of the Aeneid. It is the oldest of just three remaining ancient illustrated
Vergilius_Vaticanus
à-la-mode series. Robert Blair's poem The Grave is published. The final edition of Alexander Pope's The Dunciad is published. 1 January – William Parker
1743_in_Great_Britain
English theatre director and manager (1692–1761)
causing decay in the culture and morality of the stage. When Alexander Pope wrote the first version of The Dunciad, and even more in the second and third
John_Rich_(producer)
1809 satirical poem penned by Lord Byron
Hamilton and the Simpliciad (1808) by Richard Mant. Byron used heroic couplets in imitation of Alexander Pope's The Dunciad to attack the reigning poets
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
English_Bards_and_Scotch_Reviewers
Roman Goddess of the Cloaca Maxima
Hippo's ridicule of Cloacina as an unrespectable goddess of sewers. In The Dunciad, Alexander Pope describes Cloacina as a filthy and foul-smelling figure
Cloacina
Epithet of the goddess Cybele
Renaissance Fun: The Machines behind the Scenes. UCL Press: 328–69. doi:10.2307/j.ctv18msqmt.17. Retrieved 2026-06-14. Ness, Robert (1986). "The Dunciad and Italian
Berecynthia
English writer (1702–1734)
others. In the context of The Dunciad, Moore stands not just for the generally degraded fop, nor for the imprudent heir of a fortune, but for the avarice
James_Moore_Smythe
Miscellanies: The Third Volume Isaac Watts – A Short View of the Whole Scripture History Leonard Welsted – Of Dulness and Scandal (answer to The Dunciad) Gilbert
1732_in_literature
Tartaretta Tartaree From the navel to the knee; That her father's gracy grace Might give him a placy place. In The Dunciad (1733), Pope would also make
1726_in_poetry
Former street in London
his career, but this is doubtful. The contemporary image of Grub Street was popularised by Alexander Pope in his Dunciad. Grub Street appears to have taken
Grub_Street
British poet 1675–1731
published the letters in Miscellanea in Two Volumes (1726), much to the irritation of Pope. For this infraction he lampooned Thomas in The Dunciad (1728)
Elizabeth Thomas (poet, born 1675)
Elizabeth_Thomas_(poet,_born_1675)
of the Dunciad, including pieces by Edward Young, W. Harte and James Miller, together with four previously published pamphlets Jonathan Swift, The Grand
1732_in_poetry
18th-century periodical edited by James Ralph
James Ralph: after the first edition of The Dunciad (1728), Ralph had published Sawney (1728), and Pope had answered in the 1729 Dunciad Variorum, identifying
The Weekly Register (18th-century periodical)
The_Weekly_Register_(18th-century_periodical)
Anglo-Irish poet and playwright
in The Dunciad. In 1985, the Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City staged Tate's History of King Lear, directed by W. Stuart McDowell at The Shakespeare
Nahum_Tate
English poet and translator
and thus annoying him so as to earn a niche in The Dunciad. He also translated the Odes of Anacreon. The verses of his own that he published had very moderate
William_Broome
Alexander Pope – The New Dunciad (revised version) Henry Baker – The Microscope Made Easy Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke – Remarks on the History of
1743_in_literature
Conjugal Lewdness by Daniel Defoe 1728 in literature – Alexander Pope, The Dunciad 1729 in literature – Second Thoughts Are Best by Daniel Defoe; A Modest
List_of_years_in_literature
British landowner and politician (1673–1744)
of the insinuators and slanderers, the hack writers whom Pope had ridiculed as dunces in his Dunciad; Mack calls the affair a "falsehood of considerable
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
James_Brydges,_1st_Duke_of_Chandos
THE DUNCIAD
THE DUNCIAD
Boy/Male
Greek American German
God given.
Girl/Female
Greek
Untamed.
Female
Vietnamese
Vietnamese name THU means "autumn."
Girl/Female
Finnish, German, Greek
Gift of God
Girl/Female
Greek American
Goddess; godly. Also as abbreviation of names like Althea and Dorothea. The mythological Thea was...
Girl/Female
Hindu
Gift of God
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : variant of Tye.
Boy/Male
English
From the enclosure.
Male
English
Short form of English Theodore, THEO means "gift of God," and other names beginning with Theo-.
Female
Vietnamese
Vietnamese name THI means "poem."
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : topographic name for someone who lived by a common pasture, Middle English tye (Old English tēag).North German : from a short form, Tide, of the personal name Dietrich.
Female
English
 Pet form of English Theodora, THEA means "gift of God." Compare with another form of Thea.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Malayalam, Modern, Tamil
Nil
Boy/Male
Arthurian Legend American Hebrew Spanish
Arthur's brother.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : status name from Middle English thewe ‘thrall’, ‘slave’ (Old English þēow).
Female
Greek
 Short form of Greek and Latin Dorothea, THEA means "gift of God." Compare with another form of Thea.
Male
Native American
Native American Navajo name TSE means "rock."
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, derived from the Middle English word tye, TYE means "pasture."
Female
German
Pet form of German Kätharina, KÄTHE means "pure."
Boy/Male
Native American
Rock.
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