If meagre Gildon draw his venal quill

DMI number:

3050

Poem Aliases

Pope. Characters. Atticus.

Confidence:

Speculation (10%)

Evidence:

Pope. Fragments of a Satire.

Confidence:

Speculation (10%)

Evidence:

First Line:

If meagre Gildon draw his venal quill

Last Line:

Who would not weep if A---n were he

Poem Genre / Form:

Couplet

Themes:

Dunces and Critics / criticism

Related People

Author:

Alexander Pope

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Twickenham edition VI: 142-3, 283-5.

Related Poems

First Line:

If meagre Gildon draws his venal quill

Last Line:

Who would not weep if A--n were he

Relationship:

Variant Of

Comments:

First Line:

The bard who pilfered pastoral's renown

Last Line:

And owned that nine such poets made a Tate

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Extract Of/Extracted In

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Content/Publication

Title:

Faithful Memoirs of the Grubstreet Society [T97922] [ecco]

Page No(s):

pp.141-143

Poem Title:

Grubstreet Journal, No 102. Fragments of a Satire in the Third Volume of Swift and Pope's Miscellanies.

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