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Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published online on May 31, 2009
Forum for Modern Language Studies, doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp045
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© The Author (2009). Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved. The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland: No. SC013532.

"NONE BUT HIMSELF": "TIBBALD", THEOBALD, AND THE DUNCIAD VARIORUM

Neil Pattison

St John's College
Cambridge CB2 1TP
United Kingdom

njrp3{at}cam.ac.uk

  Abstract

This article proposes that Lewis Theobald's writings are engaged in the text of Alexander Pope's Dunciad Variorum to an extent which has been inadequately recognised in previous scholarship and criticism, and in ways which can be of assistance to a reader considering the meaning of Pope's central, if elusive and ambiguous, concepts of Dulness and the dunce. I argue that elaborating on the intense particularity of Pope's satire in the poem should not be thought to inhibit but rather to enable and increase a reader's sense of the forceful immediacy, in Theobald's terms the "virulence" and "beauty", of The Dunciad Variorum.

Key Words: Pope, Alexander • Theobald, Lewis • The Dunciad • eighteenth century • satire


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