Britain whose genius is in verse expressed
- DMI number:
- 10479
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Britain whose genius is in verse expressed
- Last Line:
- Bold and sublime but negligently dressed
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Edmund Waller
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Upon the Earl of Roscommon's Translation of Horace ('Rome was not better by her Horace taught'). Chalmers (1810) VIII: 69.
- Title:
- The laws of poetry, as laid down by the Duke of Buckinghamshire in his Essay on poetry, by the Earl of Roscommon... and by the Lord Lansdowne. (1721; T86917)
- Page No(s):
- p.282
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Waller, whose genius...in his verses before my Lord's translation of Horace's art of poetry tells us
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- Title:
- The laws of poetry, as laid down by the Duke of Buckinghamshire in his Essay on poetry, by the Earl of Roscommon... and by the Lord Lansdowne. (N10409) [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.282
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Waller, whose genius...in his verses before my Lord's translation of Horace's art of poetry tells us
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
Poem Aliases
Waller. On Roscommon's Horace's art of poetry.
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