Short is the date alas of modern rhymes
- DMI number:
- 37122
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Short is the date alas of modern rhymes
- Last Line:
- And all the bright creation fades away
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Essay, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Critics / criticism, Fame, and Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Criticism. Twickenham edition I.
- Title:
- Exercises for improvement in elocution [T126614] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- Fate of modern languages and authors.
- Attribution:
- [Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Criticism.
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