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Aubrey Williams has a fine treatment (115) of the second
Dunciad of 1729 in which he quotes Pope’s own words to
Swift:
The Dunciad is going to be printed in all pomp. . . . It will
be attended with Proeme , Prolegomena , Testimonia
Scriptorum , Index Authorum , and Notes Variorum . As to
the latter, I desire you to read over the text, and make a few
in any way you like best, whether dry raillery, upon the style
and way of commenting of trivial critics; or humorous, upon
the authors in the poem; or historical, of persons, places,
times; or explanatory; or collecting the parallel passages of
the ancients.
Instead, that is, of a mere individual book attack on Dulness,
Pope has provided a collective newspaper format and