The Dunciad Essays

Christopher Morley once said that "humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important" (Morley 189). This humor is presented differently through the following two works: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and Candide by Voltaire. In the first work, the humor is presented explicitly in the whole story, but on the other hand, in the second work, the humor is implicit in the characters' names, thought, and behaviors. This paper shows how each

literature. It is through the writings of these authors that this era paved way to the development of the novel. However, Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad

According to Biography.com, “Pope’s epigrams are some of the most frequently quoted passages in the English language.” Why? Because mostly everyone can relate to the passages he writes. “His aim was to condense, methodize, and give as perfect and novel expression as he could to floating opinions”. (Anthology of English Literature). His work has been republished multiple times, because everyone feels that the words he wrote, are expressing how they are feeling during the time period that he wrote