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Dunciad
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Any satirical poem like The Dunciad by Alexander Pope.
en 1794 Robert Anderson The Works of the British Poets The poem, therefore, celebrating him, was properly and absolutely a Dunciad; which though now unhappily lost, yet is its nature sufficiently known by the infallible tokens aforesaid.
en 1809 w:Lord Byron s:English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers Such damning fame as Dunciads only give / Could bid your lines beyond a morning live.
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