Note 15 — Chapter II · ENGLISH SATIRE FROM DRYDEN TO BYRON
Reading edition
State Dunces (1733) and The Gymnasiad (1738) by Paul Whitehead (1710–1744); The Toast (1736) by William King (1685–1763); and a succession of anonymous poems, The Battle of the Briefs (1752), Patriotism (1765), The Battle of the Wigs (1763), The Triumph of Dulness (1781), The Rape of the Faro-Bank (1797), and The Battle of the Bards (1799).