The Writings of Matthew Prior

by Prior, Matthew; Waller, A. R.

• ISBN13: 9781107666412
• ISBN10: 1107666414
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-16
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Originally published in 1907, as part of the Cambridge English Classics series, this volume of Prior's works contains the Dialogues of the Dead, together with other compositions in prose and verse. At the time of publication much of this material was previously unknown, having been discovered through extensive research into Prior's papers at Longleat. The text forms the companion volume to Poems on Several Occasions, which was published as part of the same series in 1905. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of Prior and their contribution to the development of English literature.

Table of Contents

The hind and the panther transvers'd

A Supplement to Mr Prior's Poems: To...the Countess Dowager of Devonshire

The female phaeton

The judgment of Venus

Song to his mistress

An ode in imitation of the second ode of the third book of Horace

An epistle to Sir Fleetwood Sheppard

A satire on the modern translators

A satire upon the poets

Poems from the New Collection, 1725: Epitaph extempore

The turtle and the sparrow

Down-hall

Verses spoke to the Lady Henrietta-Cavendish Holles Harley

Prologue to the orphan

The conversation

Colin's mistakes

Miscellaneous poems, etc., from the collection of drift

The Examiner. 7 September 1710

Miscellaneous poems, from the collection of Evans, including twenty-four songs

Essays and dialogues of the dead

Poems from the Longleat MSS.

Fragments from Prior's letters, etc.

Appendix: poems attributed to Prior

Notes

Index of titles

Index of first lines

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