Pope

• Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, 1728

  “Thy mighty scholist” (Parody of Marvell)
• Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, 1728

  “humbled Milton’s strains

  Turn what they will into verse

  Their toil is in vain

  Critics like me shall make it

  prose again” (On Bentley)
• Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, 1728

  “Maggots half-formed in rhyme exactly meet

  And learn to crawl upon poetic feet"