Digital Grainger

An Online Edition of The Sugar-Cane (1764)

[Title page]

THE

S U G A R - C A N E:

A

P O E M.

IN FOUR BOOKS.

WITH NOTES.

Agredior primusque novis Helicona movere
Cantibus, et viridi nutantes vertice sylvas;
Hospita sacra ferens, nulli memorata priorum. MANIL.1

By JAMES GRAINGER, M. D. &c.

LONDON:

Printed for R. and J. DODSLEY, in Pall-mall. MDCCLXIV.

  1. A passage from the Roman poet Manilius’ Astronomica. One translation reads, “[A]nd to be the first to stir with these new strains the nodding leaf-capped woods of Helicon, as I bring novel offerings untold by any before me: this is my aim” (Goold 5). Helicon is a mountain sacred to the Muses and hence a site associated with poetic inspiration. ↩︎