Matthew Prior

Five poems by MF (as Mrs. Fowke) appeared in good poetic company (with Pope, Prior, Susanna Centlivre, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and others) in Anthony Hammond's A New Miscellany, published on 19 May 1720.

Elizabeth Singer (later ESR) was courted by several men. Whether or not she was seriously pursued by either Dunton or Prior (both worldly figures), her suitors included at least two dissenting clergymen. The Rev....

ESR enjoyed important friendships from around the age of twenty with Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea, and Lady Hertford. Finch was twelve years older than ESR, and Hertford twenty-five years younger. They each...

MC shared her husband's network of high-level connections in circles of Jacobites and Jacobite sympathisers. She was a friend of the writers Pope, Prior, Swift, and Mary Barber, and of the...

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 poems include reworkings of pastoral, occasional poems (one of them inscribed in a volume belonging to a friend), and comment on public affairs. The opening three, addressed to Chloe, are conventional in tone...

One of the many novels which RNC chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)...

Each of the seven sermons in this edition has a topic, and an introductory verse quotation: from Young, Milton, Prior, Blair, Thomson, and Pope. MD's repeated claims to...

Begun in order to help the work of a female student, this work reiterates more strongly EE's plea for opening the arena of scholarship to women. For examples of poetic practice she turns to...

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...

Since other poems bring Emma together with a man called Henry, this seems to allude to Matthew Prior's once famous ballad Henry and Emma.

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...

This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine

Under a perfunctory pretence of writing about the monarchs Henry VI and Edward IV, with dignifying chapter-headings from Shakespeare, Milton, Thomson, Prior, Gray, Pope, and the poems of...

The title-page quotes supposedly from Pope but actually from Prior: Nor tears that wash out sin, can wash out shame. A news-item printed in the preliminary pages, allegedly from the Morning Post of...