This ancient city
- DMI number:
- 37444
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- This ancient city
- Last Line:
- On the broad walls the chariots bound along
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Blank verse
- Themes:
- City, Landscapes, Money / wealth, and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Edward Young
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extracts from Busiris Act 1 Scene 1 (1719 ESTC T66314).
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry, extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets [T115504] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.298
- Poem Title:
- Description of a populous City. [Young.]
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry, extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets. [T119553] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.276-277
- Poem Title:
- Description of a Populous City. [Young.]
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry; extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets ... The fourth edition [T121136] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.276-277
- Poem Title:
- Description of a Populous City. [Young.]
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry; extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets. ... The fifth edition [T202612] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.276-277
- Poem Title:
- Description of a Populous City. [Young.]
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
Poem Aliases
Young. Busiris.
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