Thou bailiff of my woods and pleasant field
- DMI number:
- 42204
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Thou bailiff of my woods and pleasant field
- Last Line:
- Let all say I use well the art they know
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Couplet, and Epistle
- Themes:
- City, Rural life, and Wisdom / folly
- Translated from:
- Horace
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Robert Thompson
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Cameron (1957): 71.
- Title:
- The poems of Horace [ESTC R712]
- Page No(s):
- pp.349-351
- Poem Title:
- Epistle XIV. ... To his Bailiff. The difference betwixt a Country life and a City life.
- Attribution:
- By R. T.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Thompson
Poem Aliases
Horace. Epistles. Book 1 Epistle 14.
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