... first changed hands without being published (in this version Shadwell's name was spelt out) the published version only printed the first two letters of the name, making the poem even more rude than it already was. MackFlecknoe has fascinated critics and scholars because it formally ponders the question who shall be MackFlecknoe's successor, but content wise is a ruthless attack and refutation on another ... greatest talent in verse satire also influencing the great satirist of the next century: Alexander Pope. Dryden laid the foundations for the poetry to come, by pronouncing Augustan ...

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