Matthew Prior

She was also already a painter on her own account. She had done a portrait of Joshua around 1746 (now in the Cottonian Collection in the city museum and art gallery of Plymouth)

In some sense, therefore, she dictated the terms of the anthology. Its full title was The Virgin Muse: Being a Collection of Poems from our Most Celebrated English Poets, designed for the use of...

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...

Steele provided managerial help (and money, and a prologue) towards its stage success. The epilogue, by Matthew Prior , prophesied a great future for female dramatists (ironically, since this was DM 's last play)...

Another poem written not long afterwards and preserved not in The Family Miscellany but in other family papers is entitled Emma to Henry, in allusion to Matthew Prior 's Henry and Emma...

The title-page quotes Matthew Prior about defying the herd of critics.ML 's preface says that on the precedent of those of my Sex who have wrote before me she must expect censure; she...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

Curll was apprenticed sometime around 1697 to 1699, and set up in business for himself by early 1706. He became a particularly agile entrepreneur with a nose for new market niches and an...

One interesting feature is the inclusion of nine poems by other authors: the canonical Prior , Swift , and Pope , the lesser-known men John Scott , William Broome , and Nathaniel Cotton , and...

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)...