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The Writings of Matthew Prior

The Writings of Matthew Prior

The Writings of Matthew Prior

Volume 2: Dialogues of the Dead and Other Works in Prose and Verse
Real author:
Matthew Prior
Editor:
A. R. Waller
Published:
February 2012
Volume:
2. Dialogues of the Dead and Other Works in Prose and Verse
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Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781107666412

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    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.

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    February 2012
    Paperback
    9781107666412
    430 pages
    203 × 133 × 24 mm
    0.49kg
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    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.
    • Matthew Prior
    • Editor
    • A. R. Waller