The Writings of Matthew Prior: Volume 2, Dialogues of the Dead and Other Works in Prose and Verse

This 1907 volume of Prior's works contains the Dialogues of the Dead, together with other compositions in prose and verse.

Matthew Prior (Author), A. R. Waller (Edited by)

9781107666412, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 February 2012

430 pages
20.3 x 13.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.49 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]