The Dunciad in Four Books

Rumbold, Valerie

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“…The situation regarding a new complete edition of Pope is more complex since there are currently two major, ongoing projects on this front. Longman's Annotated English Poets has so far brought out two excellent volumes covering the various iterations of The Dunciad , both edited by Valerie Rumbold (, ). More volumes are apparently forthcoming, but the remit of the series is obviously limited, as Twickenham was, to the poetic works.…”

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An appetite for ambivalence: Pope studies in the twenty‐first century

Jones

2018

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This article provides an overview of scholarship on Alexander Pope since the turn of the millennium, concentrating on the theme of his ambivalence as it manifests in a range of contexts. The author examines Pope's approaches to philosophy, poetics, and politics, and his overarching concern with the concepts of private and public life. The article argues that focusing on Pope's capacity for ambivalence and equivocation as a poet has proven far from a critical dead end and that there is still the promise of much intellectual excitement in this area of study.

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“…Longman's Annotated English Poets has so far brought out two excellent volumes covering the various iterations of The Dunciad, both edited by Valerie Rumbold (1999Rumbold ( , 2007a. More volumes are apparently forthcoming, but the remit of the series is obviously limited, as Twickenham was, to the poetic works.…”

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