Acknowledgements Frontispiece Introduction Map: The London area in the 1740s THE DUNCIAD IN FOUR BOOKS (1743): Advertisement to the Reader; By Authority; Epigraphs; A Letter to the Publisher; Testimonies of Authors; Martinus Scriblerus of the Poem; Ricardus Aristarchus of the Hero of the Poem; Book I; Book II; Book III; Book IV; Appendix I: Prefixed to the first Editions II: A List of Books, Papers, and Verses III: Advertisement to 1729 IV: Advertisement to the Fourth Book V: The Guardian on Pastorals VI: Of the Poet Laureate VII: Advertisement, 1730 VIII: A Parallel By the Author A Declaration Index of Persons Index of Matters Bibliography Selective index to editorial matter
Biography
Valerie Rumbold is a Reader in English at the University of Birmingham. She has published a range of articles on Pope and on eighteenth-century women writers and is a member of the editorial team on the five volume The Poems of Alexander Pope in the Longman Annotated English Poets series. Her book Women’s Place in Pope’s World (1989) was awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy.
