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Leander being fresh and gay

DMI number:
8515
Poem Aliases
Loves of Hero and Leander.
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
Related People
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.'.
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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:
Content/Publication
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