Since earth and water more dilated air
- DMI number:
- 4036
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Since earth and water more dilated air
- Last Line:
- And falling floods proclaimed prevailing powers
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Essay, Philosophic poetry, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Nature, Philosophical enquiry, and Science
- Translated from:
- Lucretius
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Emrys Jones interprets the attribution in miscellany ID 1643: 'Elsewhere in the 1685 Sylvae volume (406-17) is another translation from Lucretius "By a Person of Quality," namely, Sir Robert Howard (see Fleischmann, Lucretius, 145).' Emrys Jones, “A 'Perpetual Torrent': Dryden's Lucretian Style,” Augustan Studies: Essays in Honour of Irvin Ehrenpreis, eds. Douglas Lane Patey and Timothy Keegan (Newark, DE, 1985), 47-63, p. 62.
- Title:
- Miscellany poems: in two parts [ESTC R31378]
- Page No(s):
- pp.406-417
- Poem Title:
- Of Natures Changes. From Lucretius. Lib. V.
- Attribution:
- By a Person of Quality.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R1682]
- Page No(s):
- pp.406-417
- Poem Title:
- Of Natures Changes. From Lucretius. Lib. V.
- Attribution:
- By a Person of Quality.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R31379]
- Page No(s):
- pp.222-233
- Poem Title:
- Of Natures Changes. From Lucretius. Lib. V.
- Attribution:
- By a person of Quality.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R41930]
- Page No(s):
- pp.222-233
- Poem Title:
- Of Natures Changes. From Lucretius. Lib. V.
- Attribution:
- By a person of Quality.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [T93622] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.147-154
- Poem Title:
- Nature's Changes, Lucret. Book V.
- Attribution:
- By The Hon. Sir Robert Howard.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [N70161]
- Page No(s):
- pp.355-360
- Poem Title:
- Of Nature's Changes. From Lucretius, Lib. V.
- Attribution:
- By Sir Robert Howard
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.350-355
- Poem Title:
- Of Nature's Changes. From Lucretius, Lib. V.
- Attribution:
- By Sir Robert Howard.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
Poem Aliases
Lucretius. De Rerum Natura. Book 5.
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