The Dunciad
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The Dunciad is a landmark mock-heroic narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728 to 1743. The poem celebrates a goddess Dulness and the progress of her chosen agents as they bring decay, imbecility, and tastelessness to the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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Grub-street Race
Parts of the poem was a satire of "the Grub-street Race" of hack writers who worked in Grub Street, a London district that was home to a bohemian counterculture of impoverished writers and poets.
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