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CR Episode 297: The Dunciad, Part III

CR Episode 297: The Dunciad, Part III

Update: 2025-11-17
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The panel reads the third book of the 1743 Dunciad, in which the poem swells to its crescendo, heaping scorn upon the agents of Dullness and the rampant spirits of ignorance and commercialism that threaten the survival of the arts from opera to poetry.
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