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much “human interest” for the poem. He can thus render the
plodding industry of Baconian applied knowledge and group toil
with a dramatic quality that renders, yet irradiates, the very
Dulness he decries. Williams points out (p. 60) that the reason
why “the new material attached to the poem has never been
adequately defined is due, I think, to the assumptions most
critics and editors have made: that the notes are to be taken
at the level of history, and that their main purpose is to
continue the personal satire in a prose commentary.”
The last book of The Dunciad proclaims the metamorphic power
of mechanically applied knowledge as a stupendous parody of
the Eucharist.
* The entire fourth book of The Dunciad has to do with the
theme of The Gutenberg Galaxy , the translation or reduction of