Epic poetry - 18th century

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Homunculus or, the character of Mezereon, The High-German Doctor. An Hudibrastick poem. By Van Hugo Gasper Lunatus.
Lunatus, Van Hugo Gasper.Date: [1715]
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Taffi's master-piece: or, the Cambro-British invention. A mock poem. Being the Muscipula Oxoniensis translated into burlesque verse. By a Cantab
Holdsworth, E. (Edward), 1684-1746.Date: MDCCIX. [1709]
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The brunoniad an heroic poem. In six cantos. Containing A solemn Detail of certain Commotions which have, of late, divided the Kingdom of Physic against itself. A critical and truly Homerican Catalogue of our present Luminaries of Medicine. - A Preface, describing the present State of Medicine, being the Result of deep philosophical Investigation. - And a Dedication, being a Specimen of the Author's Talents in the Sublime and Beautiful. By Julius Juniper, Poet Laureat to the Royal College of Physicians.
Heald, W. M. (William Margetson), 1767-1837.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]
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The cambro-Britannic engineer or the original mouse-trapp-maker. A mock-heroic-poem, in commemoration of St. David's-Day. By a gentleman of Oxford. To which are added, some occasional and humorous bubble-letters: written to the merry journalists, in the mad year 1720: In which are inserted, Aesop's Stock-Jobbing Dog; a Fable: And the South-Sea-Penitent; a Pastoral: Never before published. By the same hand.
Holdsworth, E. (Edward), 1684-1746.Date: MDCCXXII. [1722]