Dunciad
English
Noun
Dunciad (plural Dunciads)
- Any satirical poem like The Dunciad by Alexander Pope.
- 1794, Robert Anderson, The Works of the British Poets
- The poem, therefore, celebrating him, was properly and absolutely a Dunciad; which though now unhappily lost, yet is its nature sufficiently known by the infallible tokens aforesaid.
- Lord Byron
- Such damning fame as Dunciads only give / Could bid your lines beyond a morning live.
- 1794, Robert Anderson, The Works of the British Poets
Anagrams
This article is issued from
Wiktionary.
The text is licensed under Creative
Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.