Heroic claims a loftier strain
- DMI number:
- 7506
- First Line:
- Heroic claims a loftier strain
- Last Line:
- And strows with lavish hand his opening flowers
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Dryden's The Art of Poetry. Calif. II (1972): 142. [But the Heroic]
- First Line:
- Rash author tis a vain presumptuous crime
- Last Line:
- A sharp but yet a necessary friend
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [Feb 1711]
- Page No(s):
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- by the ingenious Author of the Art of Poetry
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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