The last class on Pope (except there'll be a makeup on the Essay on Man in December).\xa0 The Dunciad and the reign of Dullness.\xa0 Theobald as "hero" of first Dunciad, Cibber as hero of second.\xa0 "Aristarchus" (i.e.: Pope) on the mock epic and its relation to the serious epic: how the parodic versions of wisdom, bravery, and love come to be vanity, impudence, and debauchery.\xa0 Pope's debauchery in an anecdote in Cibber's letter to Pope: Cibber saves him from peril atop a large prostitute.\xa0 Pope's cuttingness.\xa0 (The rhyme of "K *" and "sing".)\xa0 The fact that depth of soul goes with bitterness and despair, in both the Dunciad and in the amazing psychological acuity of Eloisa to Aberlard.