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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"The Dunciad: To Dr. Jonathan Swift. [From Works]"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1728, 1729, 1736
"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."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)