Dear S--- by wits extolled by wits cried down

DMI number:

3202

First Line:

Dear S--- by wits extolled by wits cried down

Last Line:

But he who wrote the verses must be Prior

Poem Genre / Form:

Couplet

Themes:

Poetry / literature / writing

Related People

Dedicatee:

Simon Harcourt

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

See H.P. Dodd, 'The Epigrammatists' (1870), p. 526, for discussion of this poem and the verses which inspired it.

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Content/Publication

Title:

A miscellany of original poems, translations &c. [N10826] [ecco]

Page No(s):

p.280

Poem Title:

To Mr. H---t, occasion'd by his Verses to Lady Catherine Hyde.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

The Grove; or, a collection of original poems, translations, &c. [T35894] [ECCO]

Page No(s):

p.280

Poem Title:

To Mr. H---t, occasion'd by his Verses to Lady Catherine Hyde.

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