The Dunciad in Four Books

A paperback edition of Pope's notoriously difficult - and notoriously brilliant - The Dunciad in Four Books.This new edition of Pope'sDunciadis clearly presented and benefits from a number of features: Explanatory notes are included on the same page as Pope's text and are written in a clear style The prose sections - an integral part of the work - have been annotated as fully as the verse A substantial introduction offers a stimulating and helpful approach to the work, and the bibliography includes suggestions for further reading

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.