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CR Episode 296: The Dunciad, Part II
Nov 10, 2025
01:19:42
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The panel discusses the second book of Alexander Pope's final Dunciad (of 1743), with attention to the historical personages who are satirised, including Flecknoe and Blackmore, and the effects that they had on later poets and on the English stage.
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