Leander being fresh and gay
- DMI number:
- 8515
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Leander being fresh and gay
- Last Line:
- Her flood gates opt and her own water drowned her
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Burlesque, Erotic poetry, Couplet, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, and Mock heroic
- Themes:
- Love, Mythology, Sex and bawdy humour, and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- James Smith
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Roy Booth, 'Hero's afterlife: Hero and Leander and "lewd unmannerly verse" in the late seventeenth century', Early Modern Literary Studies, 12.3 (2007), article 4. See also ODNB. The prologue to the poem (poem ID 8517) refers to a poet, 'J.S.'.
- First Line:
- They both were drowned whilst love and fate contended
- Last Line:
- And thus they both pure flesh like pure fish ended
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The famous Greek and Asian story
- Last Line:
- I now begin dum spiro spero
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Ovid de arte amandi and the remedy of love Englished [ESTC R214548]
- Page No(s):
- pp.113-138
- Poem Title:
- The Loves Of Hero And Leander, A mock Poem
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Ovid de arte amandi and the remedy of love Englished [ESTC R7878]
- Page No(s):
- pp.113-138
- Poem Title:
- The Loves Of Hero And Leander, A mock Poem
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Ovid, de arte amandi [T109573]
- Page No(s):
- pp.113-138
- Poem Title:
- The Loves of Hero and Leander, A Mock Poem
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Ovid, De arte amandi [T181103]
- Page No(s):
- pp.114-138
- Poem Title:
- The Loves of Hero and Leander, A Mock Poem
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Loves of Hero and Leander.
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