Author: Whitehead, Paul
Title: The State Dunces Inscribed to Mr. Pope
Description: London, Printed for W. Printed for W.Dickenson in Witch-Street, 1733. Pamphlet. Folio pamphlet, 12 3/4 in x 8 1/4 in. Disbound. pp. [2], 8, 13-18. Missing pp. 9-12. Top right corner bumped. Small tear to rear fore edge of rear leaf. Crease to bottom left corner of pp. 13-16. Pages lightly tanned with occasional spotting. Jonathan Swift epigraph and printer's ornament to title page. Headpiece to pp. 1. (ESTC T48572). The satirist Paul Whitehead (1710-1774) authored this political poem. In heroic couplets, he mocks the Whig government and its chief State Dunce, Robert Walpole. He included the Bishop of Chichester Francis Hare and the Whig historian James Ralph in his satirical critique. Whitehead directly engages with Alexander Pope's The Dunciad, a seething mock-heroic narrative poem. Whitehead writes "Yet vain, O Pope! is all thy sharpest Rage / Still starv'ling Dunces persecute the Age / Faithful to Folly, or enrag'd with Spite / still tasteless Timons build, and Tibbalds write / Still Welstead tunes his Beer Inspire'd Lays / And Ralph, in Metre, howls forth Stanhope's Praise / Ah! hapless Victim to the Poet's Flame / While his eulogiums crucify thy Fame." Whitehead continued to write in a Popeian style of poetry throughout the 1740s and 1750s and remained a staunch opponent of the Whig government. His mock-heroic poetry exemplifies the early to mid-eighteenth century satire typical of Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and William Hogarth. (ODNB). Good .
Keywords: Political Satire, Poetry, Walpole, Whig Government, Satire
Title: The State Dunces Inscribed to Mr. Pope
Description: London, Printed for W. Printed for W.Dickenson in Witch-Street, 1733. Pamphlet. Folio pamphlet, 12 3/4 in x 8 1/4 in. Disbound. pp. [2], 8, 13-18. Missing pp. 9-12. Top right corner bumped. Small tear to rear fore edge of rear leaf. Crease to bottom left corner of pp. 13-16. Pages lightly tanned with occasional spotting. Jonathan Swift epigraph and printer's ornament to title page. Headpiece to pp. 1. (ESTC T48572). The satirist Paul Whitehead (1710-1774) authored this political poem. In heroic couplets, he mocks the Whig government and its chief State Dunce, Robert Walpole. He included the Bishop of Chichester Francis Hare and the Whig historian James Ralph in his satirical critique. Whitehead directly engages with Alexander Pope's The Dunciad, a seething mock-heroic narrative poem. Whitehead writes "Yet vain, O Pope! is all thy sharpest Rage / Still starv'ling Dunces persecute the Age / Faithful to Folly, or enrag'd with Spite / still tasteless Timons build, and Tibbalds write / Still Welstead tunes his Beer Inspire'd Lays / And Ralph, in Metre, howls forth Stanhope's Praise / Ah! hapless Victim to the Poet's Flame / While his eulogiums crucify thy Fame." Whitehead continued to write in a Popeian style of poetry throughout the 1740s and 1750s and remained a staunch opponent of the Whig government. His mock-heroic poetry exemplifies the early to mid-eighteenth century satire typical of Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and William Hogarth. (ODNB). Good .
Keywords: Political Satire, Poetry, Walpole, Whig Government, Satire
Price: US$ 250.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 84049
- Book number: 84049