Impatient for the wonders of the day
- DMI number:
- 11616
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Impatient for the wonders of the day
- Last Line:
- And lands triumphant on his native shore
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, Narrative verse, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Animals[Dragon], Creation, Fighting / conflict, Mythology[Jason; Medea], and Supernatural
- Author:
- Nahum Tate
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- ODNB entry: 'Tate pursued his interest in translation with versions from book 7 of Ovid's Metamorphoses'. Hopkins, "Dryden and the Garth-Tonson Metamorphoses": '[Tonson] may also have inherited the manuscripts of some of Nahum Tate's translations from the Metamorphoses on that poet's death in 1715'. (The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 153 (Feb., 1988), 64-74, 65.)
- Translated from:
- Ovid
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [N41874] [vol.1] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.203-206
- Poem Title:
- The Dragon's Teeth transform'd to Men.
- Attribution:
- by the same Hand [i.e., Tate] [contents page]
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T108889]
- Page No(s):
- pp.218-220
- Poem Title:
- The Dragon's Teeth transform'd to Men.
- Attribution:
- by the same Hand [i.e., Tate] [contents page]
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T128848, Vol.2]
- Page No(s):
- pp.16-19
- Poem Title:
- The Dragon's Teeth transform'd to Men.
- Attribution:
- by the same Hand [i.e., Tate] [contents page]
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T138611]
- Page No(s):
- pp.218-220
- Poem Title:
- The Dragon's Teeth transform'd to Men.
- Attribution:
- by the same Hand [i.e., Tate] [contents page]
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T169738] [vol.2]
- Page No(s):
- pp.6-9
- Poem Title:
- The Dragon's Teeth transform'd to Men.
- Attribution:
- by the same Hand [i.e., Tate] [contents page]
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T175634] [vol.2] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.6-9
- Poem Title:
- The Dragon's Teeth transform'd to Men.
- Attribution:
- by the same Hand [i.e., Tate] [contents page]
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T99153] [Vol.2]
- Page No(s):
- pp.6-9
- Poem Title:
- The Dragon's Teeth transform'd to Men.
- Attribution:
- by the same Hand [i.e., Tate] [contents page]
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T99262, Vol 2]
- Page No(s):
- pp.6-9
- Poem Title:
- The Dragon's Teeth transform'd to Men.
- Attribution:
- by the same Hand [i.e., Tate] [contents page]
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
Poem Aliases
Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book VII.
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