God whose revenge for boasts the crew
- DMI number:
- 42135
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- God whose revenge for boasts the crew
- Last Line:
- Did feasts reduce
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase and Ode
- Themes:
- Mythology[Apollo; Diana], People[Achilles], Poetry / literature / writing, and War[Trojan War]
- Author:
- Barten Holyday
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Harold F. Brooks attributes this and other poems with verse arguments to Holyday in 'Contributors to Brome's Horace', Notes and Queries, 174 (1938), 200-1 (p. 200). W. J. Cameron rejects this attribution in 'Brome's "Horace", 1661 and 1671', Notes and Queries, 202 (1957), 70-1 (p. 70). The poem appears in the anonymous collection All Horace His Lyrics (1653, ESTC No. R23976) on pp. 116-17.
- Translated from:
- Horace
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- He doth in secularian verse
- Last Line:
- Phoebus and Dian's praise rehearse
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The poems of Horace [ESTC R712]
- Page No(s):
- pp.142-143
- Poem Title:
- Ode VI. To Apollo and Diana.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Horace. Odes. Book 4 Ode 6.
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