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Charles GildonCharles Gildon (1665 - 1724), critic and dramatist, belonged to a Roman Catholic family, and was an unsuccessful playwright, a literary hack, and a critic of little acumen or discrimination. He attacked Alexander Pope as "Sawny Dapper," and was in return embalmed as a dunce in Pope's The Dunciad. He also wrote a Life of Defoe. Gildon, Charles Gildon, Charles
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