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“... Up-to-date-ness is everything in the world of Duncedom. In her introduction to this edition, Valerie Rumbold is quiet about her admiration for the poem, but it is clear that she has set out to rescue it for students – and their teachers. Johnson argued that ‘the alterations which have been made in The Dunciad, not always for the better, require ...”

“... mode of writing. Impersonation, projection or ventriloquism was his habit, demonstrated throughout Valerie Rumbold’s superb edition of his Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: spoof prophecies and bogus gallows broadsides; fabricated pamphlet wars on pointless subjects; straight-faced manuals of advice on behaving badly. For Walter Scott, his shrewdest ...”