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The New Dunciad: As it was found in the Year MDCCXLI. With the Illustrations of Scriblerus and Notes Variorum.

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Second edition (although not stated on title), published within a week of the first edition, with slight revisions to both poem and notes. A reissue in the same year with a cancel title-page acknowledges this printing as the second edition.

Having carried satire to the brink of prosecution, Pope retired into four years of silence, broken in 1742 by this, the new fourth book of The Dunciad, depicting the goddess Dullness ‘coming in her Majesty to destroy Order and Science, and to substitute the Kingdom of the Dull upon Earth’. A slighting reference to Colley Cibber in line 318 inaugurated Pope’s last literary quarrel, and led to the revision of the whole poem in 1743 with the sycophantic laureate instead of Lewis Theobald as the mock hero.

Foxon P 789; Griffith 549.

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