Wherever too much sanctity you see
- DMI number:
- 14091
- First Line:
- Wherever too much sanctity you see
- Last Line:
- If man suspect him rogue if woman whore
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Charles Sackville
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Of the poem this is excerpted from: VIETH: In The Gyldenstope Manuscript Miscellany, Vieth points out an attribution by Alexander Pope ("probably by the Ld. Dorset") on his copy of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (1705). See Benjamin Boyce, 'An Annotated Volume from Pope's Library', Notes and Queries 203 (1958) 55-57, and W. J. Cameron, 'Pope's Annotations on 'State-Affairs' Poems', Notes and Queries 203 (1958), 291-94.
- Author:
- John Wilmot
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- 'E. R.' = Earl of Rochester? Of the poem this is excerpted from: Not in Love VIETH: Rejected LION: 'POAS' (1687-1716) Vivian de Sola Pinto thinks parts by Rochester but evidence is "not very strong" (Poems by Rochester, pp. 230-31.) VIETH: Rejects Rochester's authorship in The Gyldenstope Manuscript Miscellany (1967), pp. 361-5.
- Title:
- Original and genuine letters sent to the Tatler and Spectator [T147412] [vol. 2]
- Page No(s):
- p.173
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- E. R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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