Matthew Prior

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Standard Name: Prior, Matthew

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Textual Features Mary Savage
The opening poem, Nothing New, situates the anxieties of authors in regard to critics in the tradition of anxieties of lovers: both are right to be anxious. The contents include an English translation of...
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Elizabeth Singer (later ESR ) engaged in a correspondence, light-hearted at least on his side, with the poet Matthew Prior , who flirted with her and made fun of her godliness.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang.
79, 85
Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
Another poem written not long afterwards and preserved not in The Family Miscellany but in other family papers is entitled Emma to Henry,
Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press.
268
in allusion to Matthew Prior 's Henry and Emma...
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
Steele provided managerial help (and money, and a prologue) towards its stage success.
Ballaster, Ros. “Early Women Writers: Lives and Times. Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol.
5
, No. 1, pp. 2-5.
3
The epilogue, by Matthew Prior , prophesied a great future for female dramatists (ironically, since this was DM 's last play)...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Fielding
This is the earliest serious piece of criticism on Clarissa. It takes the form of a letter from a fictional impartial observer to the novelist, reporting on public opinion as expressed in a series...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Tollet
The volume opens with translations from classical authors, and includes two psalms translated into Latin.
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University.
51
ET also translated from the sixteenth-century Latin of George Buchanan . One poem, Ariette, was listed as set...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Brereton
In the first of this group of poems, Melissa declares her own inferiority to Fidelia (with a brief survey of other poets including Pope , Buckingham , Prior , Dryden and Finch ).
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Her narrative, in iambic couplets, was influenced, as most biblical re-tellings were, both by Milton 's Paradise Lost and by Matthew Prior 's Solomon (which elsewhere she praised in verse).
Wealth and Poverty Radagunda Roberts
She left the stock, the house, and several keepsakes to her sister, to her nephew Alfred William both her inkstand and her copy of John Hawkesworth 's translation of Fénelon 's Télémaque (apparently recognizing William...

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