What to begin would have been madness thought
- DMI number:
- 3779
- First Line:
- What to begin would have been madness thought
- Last Line:
- Preserved the mighty work that now we see
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Panegyric and Couplet
- Themes:
- Ancient history, Poetry / literature / writing[Translation of Lucretius], and Glories of past ages
- Author:
- Richard Duke
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) IX: 222.
- Dedicatee:
- Thomas Creech
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellany poems: the first part [T117015]
- Page No(s):
- pp.308-310
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Creech on his Translation of Lucretius.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. R. Duke
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- Title:
- Poems by the Earl of Roscomon. To which is added, An essay on poetry, by the Earl of Mulgrave, now Duke of Buckingham. Together with Poems by Mr. Richard Duke. [T132427]
- Page No(s):
- pp.398-401
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Creech On His Translation of Lucretius.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
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