But when the torrent quenched the dreadful blaze

DMI number:

18187

Poem Aliases

Pope. Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

But when the torrent quenched the dreadful blaze

Last Line:

And what extinguished theirs increased my flame

Poem Genre / Form:

Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Epistle

Themes:

Disaster, Sex and bawdy humour, and Sex / relations between the sexes

Related People

Author:

Alexander Pope

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from Mary Gulliver to Lemuel Gulliver. Twickenham edition VI: 276-9.

Content/Publication

Title:

Gulliveriana: or, a fourth volume of miscellanies. Being a Sequel of the Three Volumes, published by Pope and Swift. To which is added, Alexanderiana... [ESTC T53830]

Page No(s):

p.281

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

'the Dean' i.e. Swift

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

Jonathan Swift