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Definitions of dulness in various dictionaries:
adj - mentally slow
verb - to make less sharp
DULNESS - Dulness is the goddess who presides over Alexander Pope's The Dunciad. She is the central character, introduced at the start of the work.Dulness is t...
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Obsolete spelling of dullness. |
Lack of interest or excitement. |
Lack of brightness, vividness, or sheen. |
The quality of being slow to understand stupidity. |
without sharpness of edge or point |
a lack of visual brightness |
the quality of lacking interestingness |
the quality of being slow to understand |
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Dulness is the goddess who presides over Alexander Pope's The Dunciad. She is the central character, introduced at the start of the work.Dulness is the daughter Chaos and "eternal Night," and her mission is to convert all the world to stupidity ("To hatch a new Saturnian age, of Lead"). Her triumph is part of the translatio stultitia (the inverse of the translatio studii). As "enlightenment" moves ever westward, darkness follows behind. In Pope's poem, she already has control of all political writing and seeks to extend her reign to drama. Hence, she chooses as a champion Lewis Theobald (Dunciad A) and Colley Cibber (Dunciad B). * Pope presents the power of Dulness as inexorable and irresistible, and in Book IV of the Dunciad B he asks only that she pause a moment to let him write his poem before she takes "the singer and the song" into her oblivion. She is not motivated by any particular malice, and she even shows mercy at one point, if being reduced to insensibility is mercy, for, when |