"A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead;] i. e. A trifling head, and a contracted heart,as the poet, book 4. describes the accomplished Sons of Dulness; of whom this is only an Image, or Scarecrow, and so stuffed out with these corresponding materials."
— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Date
1728, 1729, 1736
Metaphor
"A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead;] i. e. A trifling head, and a contracted heart,as the poet, book 4. describes the accomplished Sons of Dulness; of whom this is only an Image, or Scarecrow, and so stuffed out with these corresponding materials."
Metaphor in Context
Remarks.
Ver. 44. A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead;] i. e. A trifling head, and a contracted heart,
as the poet, book 4. describes the accomplished Sons of Dulness; of whom this is only an Image, or Scarecrow, and so stuffed out with these corresponding materials.
Scribl.
Ver. 44. A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead;] i. e. A trifling head, and a contracted heart,
as the poet, book 4. describes the accomplished Sons of Dulness; of whom this is only an Image, or Scarecrow, and so stuffed out with these corresponding materials.
Scribl.
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Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Searching in text from The Works of Alexander Pope (London: Printed for B. Lintot ... Lawton Gilliver ... H. Lintot ... L. Gilliver, and J. Clarke, 1736). <Link to Lion>
Compare The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. In Three Books. ([London]: Dublin, printed, London re-printed for A. Dodd, 1728).
And The Dunciad. With Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus. (London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver at Homer’s Head, against St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleetstreet, 1729). <Link to 2nd edition, ESTC>
Reading David Vander Meulen, Pope’s Dunciad of 1728, facs. ed. (Charlottesville and London: Bibliographical Society, 1991).
Compare The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. In Three Books. ([London]: Dublin, printed, London re-printed for A. Dodd, 1728).
And The Dunciad. With Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus. (London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver at Homer’s Head, against St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleetstreet, 1729). <Link to 2nd edition, ESTC>
Reading David Vander Meulen, Pope’s Dunciad of 1728, facs. ed. (Charlottesville and London: Bibliographical Society, 1991).
Date of Entry
01/25/2006
