A tablet stood of that abstersive tree

DMI number:

4697

First Line:

A tablet stood of that abstersive tree

Last Line:

Nor rudely skips over bishops heads like knights

Poem Genre / Form:

Thing-poem, Quatrain abab, and Parody

Themes:

Entertainments / pastimes[chess]

Related People

Author:

Sir John Denham

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Chalmers (1810): 252. Banks (1928): 113-114.

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Content/Publication

Title:

The fifth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]

Page No(s):

pp.246-247

Poem Title:

An Occasional Imitation of a Modern Author upon the Game of Chess: (Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert.)

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By the same Hand. [i.e. Denham]

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

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The fifth part of miscellany poems [T214159]

Page No(s):

p.250

Poem Title:

An Occasional Imitation of a Modern Author upon the Game of Chess. (Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert.)

Attribution:

By the same hand [i.e. Denham]

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham