Nay painter if thou darest design that fight

DMI number:

42349

First Line:

Nay painter if thou darest design that fight

Last Line:

In Petty's double kneeled experiment

Poem Genre / Form:

Topical satire, Satire, Advice to a Painter poems, and Couplet

Themes:

Art / painting, Mythology, and War[Second Anglo-Dutch War.]

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Author:

Andrew Marvell

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Included in Smith (2007): 329-343. However, no firm conclusions over authorship: see pp. 323-324. George deF. Lord attributes poem to Marvell in POAS I (1963): 34-52.

Author:

Sir John Denham

Confidence:

Speculation (10%)

Comments:

Banks (1928): 327: considers Denham's authorship impossible.

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Now painter if thou darest design that fight

Last Line:

And done we know not what nor what we get

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Imperial prince king of the seas and isles

Last Line:

Kings are but cards in war they're gods in peace

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Content/Publication

Title:

A third collection of ... poems, satyrs, songs, &c. against popery and tyranny [ESTC R26292]

Page No(s):

pp.9-12

Poem Title:

Directions To A Painter.

Attribution:

By Sir John Denham. 1667.

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham