Author:Matthew Prior

Matthew Prior
(1664–1721)

Matthew Prior

Works

• The Hind and Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse (1709) , co-authored with Charles Montagu (transcription project)
• Chloe Hunting
• Poems on Several Occasions (1709) (external scan)
• The history of his own time, compiled from the original manuscripts of his late excellency Matthew Prior, Esq. (1740), edited by Adrian Drift (external scan)
• 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 (external scan)
• "The Lady's Looking-glass", in Hero and Leander, a poem by Musaeus (1750) by Musaeus Grammaticus, translated by Laurence Eusden

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

• "Prior," in The lives of the most eminent English poets (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, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Matthew Prior," by Llewelyn Powys in The Dial, 1923