Now painter if thou darest design that fight

DMI number:

8935

First Line:

Now painter if thou darest design that fight

Last Line:

And done we know not what nor what we get

Poem Genre / Form:

Topical satire, Extract / snippet from longer work, Advice to a Painter poems, and Couplet

Themes:

Ancient history, Art / painting, City, Other countries, Politics[Second Anglo-Dutch War], and War

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Author:

Andrew Marvell

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

'Second Advice to A Painter' included in Smith (2007): 329-343. However, no firm conclusions over authorship: see pp. 323-324. George deF. Lord attributes poem to Marvell in POAS I (1963): 34-52.

Author:

Sir John Denham

Confidence:

Speculation (10%)

Comments:

Banks (1928): 327: considers Denham's authorship impossible.

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Content/Publication

Title:

Occasional poems on the late Dutch war [T102884]

Page No(s):

pp.3-7

Poem Title:

Directions to a Painter, written in the Year 1667, concering the Dutch War.

Attribution:

By Sir John Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham