Which neoclassical mock-epic by Alexander Pope satirizes literary dullness?

Alexander Pope’s neoclassical mock-epic that satirizes literary dullness is The Dunciad.

The poem personifies Dulness as a goddess whose chosen agents spread stupidity, bad taste, empty learning, and cultural decay. Pope turns literary quarrels and contemporary publishing disputes into an absurd heroic struggle, using the elevated language and structure of epic poetry to describe hack writers, booksellers, critics, and fashionable mediocrity.

The first three-book version appeared anonymously in 1728, followed by the Dunciad Variorum in 1729. Pope later expanded and revised the poem, publishing The Dunciad in Four Books in 1743. The poem’s mock-heroic design draws on Virgil’s Aeneid and John Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe, while its targets include Lewis Theobald and, in the later version, Colley Cibber.

The Rape of the Lock is another famous Pope mock-heroic poem, but it satirizes social vanity by treating a stolen lock of hair as an epic conflict. Paradise Lost is a genuine biblical epic, and The Odyssey is Homer’s ancient Greek epic, so neither fits the question.