Abstract
When the three-book Dunciad appeared in May 1728, Pope was about to turn forty. So, too, was the political cause that had come to life shortly after James II left England for the court of St. Germain in December 1688. Since Pope was a member of the Catholic minority as well as a critic of the Williamite conquest, it is scarcely surprising that he deplored James's fate. Yet he never committed himself to the Jacobite cause, even though he was susceptible to the lingering spell of the Stuarts. On that score he was in tune with the culture of emotional
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