SOURCE: "Pope, Publishing, and Popular Interpretations of the Dunciad Variorum, in Philological Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3, Summer, 1995, pp. 279-95.
In the essay below, Rogers provides a publishing history of the various editions of The Dunciad, stating that they show Pope was "a brilliant poet and acute businessman, sensitive to the follies of the world and highly current with contemporary printing and bookselling practice."
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