Now scorching Sirius burnt the thirsty moors
- DMI number:
- 3917
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Now scorching Sirius burnt the thirsty moors
- Last Line:
- Eurydice Eurydice the banks resound
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Georgic, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Narrative verse, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Mythology[Proteus, Orpheus, Eurydice]
- Author:
- Richard Maitland
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Thomas Creech
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Gillespie and Hopkins (2008) II: viii. Poem is 'wrongly attributed to Thomas Creech' in third edition of Sylvae (miscellany ID 125).
- Translated from:
- Virgil
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins, eds, The Dryden-Tonson Miscellanies, 1684-1709, 6 vols (London, 2008). II. viii.
- Title:
- Miscellany poems: in two parts [ESTC R31378]
- Page No(s):
- pp.145-154
- Poem Title:
- Part of Virgils 4th. Georgick.
- Attribution:
- Englished by an unknown Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R1682]
- Page No(s):
- pp.145-154
- Poem Title:
- Part of Virgils 4th. Georgick.
- Attribution:
- Englished by an unknown Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R31379]
- Page No(s):
- pp.145-154
- Poem Title:
- Part of Virgils 4th. Georgick.
- Attribution:
- Englished by an unknown Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R41930]
- Page No(s):
- pp.145-154
- Poem Title:
- Part of Virgils 4th. Georgick.
- Attribution:
- Englished by an unknown Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [T93622] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.230-236
- Poem Title:
- Part Of Virgil's Fourth Georgick.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Creech.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- Title:
- Sylvae: or the second part of poetical miscellanies [T116469]
- Page No(s):
- pp.89-96
- Poem Title:
- Part of Virgil's 4th Georgic.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Creech
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [N70161]
- Page No(s):
- pp.215-219
- Poem Title:
- Part of Virgil's IVth Georgick.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Creech
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.212-215
- Poem Title:
- Part of Virgil's Fourth Georgick.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Creech.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
Poem Aliases
Virgil. Georgics. Book 4.
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