Sir | You have obliged the British nation more
- DMI number:
- 4785
- First Line:
- Sir | You have obliged the British nation more
- Last Line:
- He must bring sense that understands it here
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lampoon and Couplet
- Themes:
- Dunces and Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Edmund Waller
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) VIII: 70-71. Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins also accept the attribution to Waller. Gillespie and Hopkins, eds, The Dryden-Tonson Miscellanies, 1684-1709, 6 vols (London, 2008), III: viii.
- Author:
- Samuel Butler
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Lamar (1928): 115-16.
- Title:
- Examen Poeticum being the third part of miscellany poems [N6500]
- Page No(s):
- pp.82-84
- Poem Title:
- To a Person of Honour: Upon his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- Title:
- Examen poeticum: being the third part of miscellany poems [ESTC R122]
- Page No(s):
- pp.159-161
- Poem Title:
- To A Person of Honour: Upon His Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Waller.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- Title:
- Examen poeticum: being the third part of miscellany poems [ESTC R228541]
- Page No(s):
- pp.159-161
- Poem Title:
- To A Person of Honour: Upon His Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Waller.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- Title:
- The third part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- pp.67-68
- Poem Title:
- To a Person of Honour, (Mr. Edward Howard) upon his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem, intitled the British Princes.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Waller.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- Title:
- The third part of miscellany poems [N49205]
- Page No(s):
- pp.68-69
- Poem Title:
- To a Person of Honour, (Mr. Edward Howard) upon his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem, intitled the British Princes.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
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