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Impatient for the wonders of the day

DMI number:
11616
Poem Aliases
Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book VII.
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
Related People
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:
Content/Publication
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