No. Alexander Pope who wrote the poem spelled it Dulness. Dulness is the goddess who presides over Alexander Pope's The Dunciad. She is the central character, introduced at the start of the work.
I am a huge Pope fan. Essay on Man one of my favorites. And I recently learned Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, a famous deist and friend of the Roman Catholic Alexander Pope, actually had tremendous input into his writing.
No surprise: The book AT ONE THEY STRZOK is not available on Amazon.com.
Not to be a pedantic twat, but it's Dullness...
No. Alexander Pope who wrote the poem spelled it Dulness. Dulness is the goddess who presides over Alexander Pope's The Dunciad. She is the central character, introduced at the start of the work.
Ah. My bad. I love his translation of the Iliad.
I am a huge Pope fan. Essay on Man one of my favorites. And I recently learned Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, a famous deist and friend of the Roman Catholic Alexander Pope, actually had tremendous input into his writing.
He's got a great line there about Erasmus that calls into question the latter's orthodoxy.
I also like Erasmus. The Complaint of Peace.