Poets by dangers like old soldiers taught

DMI number:

17210

Poem Aliases

The Vestal Virgin. Prologue.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Poets by dangers like old soldiers taught

Last Line:

Grow wise and shun the same which once they sought

Poem Genre / Form:

Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, Verse-drama, and Prologue

Themes:

Poetry / literature / writing and Trades / labour[Soldiers]

Related People

Author:

Sir Robert Howard

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from prologue to 'The Vestal Virgin'. Howard (1692).

Content/Publication

Title:

[vol. 3] The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries [vol III] [ECCO] [T131617]

Page No(s):

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Prologue to Sir R. Howard's Vestal Virgin

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard