Noun
Dunciad (plural Dunciads)
Any satirical poem like The Dunciad by Alexander Pope.
Together with John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' and Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' this first 'Dunciad' was part of a concerted propaganda assault against Walpole's Whig ministry and the financial revolution it stabilised. Source: Internet
In the 1728 version of the poem, the goddess Dulness notes that "Time himself stands still at her command,/ Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land" (Dunciad 1728, i, 69 70). Source: Internet