Author:Matthew Prior

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Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

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English poet and diplomat.

Matthew Prior

Contents

Works

Poetry

• Chloe Hunting
• Poems on Several Occasions (1709)
• The history of his own time, compiled from the original manuscripts of his late excellency Matthew Prior, Esq. (1740), edited by Adrian Drift
• Miscellaneous works of His late Excellency Matthew Prior, esq.; consisting of poems on several occasions, viz. epistles, tales, satires, epigrams, &c., with some select Latin performances (1740), edited by Adrian Drift

Letters

• Letter From Matthew Prior to Jonathan Swift - 1 (April 8, 1713)
• Letter From Matthew Prior to Jonathan Swift - 2 (August 15-16, 1713)
• Letter From Matthew Prior to Jonathan Swift - 3 (July 30, 1717)
• Letter From Matthew Prior to Jonathan Swift - 4 (August 24, 1717)
• Letter From Matthew Prior to Jonathan Swift - 5 (May 1, 1718)
• Letter From Matthew Prior to Jonathan Swift - 6 (May 29, 1718)
• Letter From Matthew Prior to Jonathan Swift - 7 (September 25, 1718)
• Letter From Matthew Prior to Jonathan Swift - 8 (May 5, 1719)
• Letter From Matthew Prior to Jonathan Swift - 9 (December 8, 1719)
• Letter From Matthew Prior to Jonathan Swift - 10 (May 4, 1720)
• Letter From Matthew Prior to Jonathan Swift - 11 (February 28, 1721)
• Letter From Matthew Prior to Jonathan Swift - 12 (April 25, 1721)

Other Works

• Tatler Number 258 (1710)

Works about Prior

• "Matthew Prior" in The lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works (1783), by Samuel Johnson, Volume 3, pp.1-38.
• "Prior, Matthew," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Prior, Matthew," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Prior, Matthew," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Prior, Matthew," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.