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CR Episode 296: The Dunciad, Part II

CR Episode 296: The Dunciad, Part II

Critical Readings · Critical Readings

November 10, 20251h 19m

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Show Notes

The panel discusses the second book of Alexander Pope's final Dunciad (of 1743), with attention to the historical personages who are satirised, including Flecknoe and Blackmore, and the effects that they had on later poets and on the English stage.