Matthew Prior

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).

It is a poem highly characteristic of her manner: a moral tale featuring a personified quality, humorous, ironic, and written in octosyllabic couplets reminiscent of Swift or Prior . Prudence and Oeconomy are the daughters...

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...

AS said she was attempting to combine the passion of Pope 's Eloisa with the tenderness of Prior 's Emma, while moderating the over-enthusiasm in love of both these heroines. In the first epistle her...

The title-page bears a quotation from Prior 's verse romance Henry and Emma, but SS lays explicit claim, too, to a canonical tradition of prose fiction. The book begins with a series of tales...

The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare through Racine in French, Prior and Pope to Sterne and Burke , plus a couple of unidentified women....

ET 's book ownership qualifies her as a collector in a way that few of her female contemporaries were, though since she left her collection to her scholarly nephew George it is hard to separate...

The volume opens with translations from classical authors, and includes two psalms translated into Latin.ET also translated from the sixteenth-century Latin of George Buchanan . One poem, Ariette, was listed as set...

Her poems, full of character and ingenuity, spring from social interchange. The title piece is a longish, narrative, occasional poem, Sent with a Pair of China Basons to JW 's dedicatee (who may probably...

The title-page quotes Matthew Prior . AW claims to have written her whimsical dedication to Pythagoras (at the insistence of Lowndes that she should dedicate to somebody) after a dream about the transmigration of souls...