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Born in July 21, 1664 / Died in September 18, 1721 / United Kingdom / English

Furtherreading

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FURTHER READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  • Charles Kenneth Eves, Bibliography, in his Matthew Prior: Poet and Diplomatist (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939), pp. 411-421.
  • H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, eds., "Principal Collected Editions," in The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, 2 volumes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959, 1971), I: xxxvii-xxxix.
  • Frances Mayhew Rippy, Bibliography, in her Matthew Prior (Boston: Twayne, 1986), pp. 154-161.
  • Samuel Johnson, "Life of Prior," in his Lives of the English Poets, 10 volumes (London: Printed by J. Nichols for C. Bathurst, 1779-1781), VI: 1-63.
  • Francis Bickley, The Life of Matthew Prior (London: Pitman, 1914).
  • L. G. Wickham Legg, Matthew Prior: A Study of His Public Career and Correspondence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1921).
  • H. Bunker Wright, "Matthew Prior: A Supplement to His Biography," Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1937).
  • Charles Kenneth Eves, Matthew Prior: Poet and Diplomatist (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939).
  • G. A. Aitken, "Matthew Prior," Contemporary Review, 57 (May 1890): 715-729.
  • John Arbuthnot, "Letter from Arbuthnot to Henry Watkins, 30 September 1721," European Magazine and London Review, 13 (January 1788): 8.
  • Wilfred Phillips Barrett, "Matthew Prior's Alma," Modern Language Review, 27 (October 1932): 454-458.
  • Veronica Bassil, "The Faces of Griselda: Chaucer, Prior, and Richardson," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 26 (Summer 1984): 157-182.
  • Francis Bickley, "New Facts about Matthew Prior," Quarterly Review, 218 (January 1913): 91-117.
  • R. P. Blackmur, "Homo Ludens," Kenyon Review, 21 (Autumn 1959): 662-668.
  • Richmond P. Bond, English Burlesque Poetry, 1700-1750, Harvard Studies in English, no. 6 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1932).
  • Louis I. Bredvold, The Intellectual Milieu of John Dryden: Studies in Some Aspects of Seventeenth-Century Thought (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1934).
  • Bredvold, "The Literature of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, 1660-1798," in A History of English Literature, edited by Hardin Craig (New York: Oxford University Press, 1950).
  • Edward L. Carroll, "A Memoir of Matthew Prior," Union College Bulletin, 26 (1932): 43-61.
  • Theophilus Cibber [and Robert Shiels], "Matthew Prior, Esq.," in The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (London: Printed for R. Griffiths, 1753), IV: 43-57.
  • William Cowper, The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq., edited by William Hayley (London: Baldwin, Cradock, 1824).
  • Mary Elizabeth Cox, "Prior's Conversation Poems," Bulletin of the West Virginia Association of College English Teachers, 1 (Spring 1974): 20-27.
  • John Dennis, "Matthew Prior," in his Studies in English Literature (London: Edward Stanford, 1876), pp. 109-147.
  • Austin Dobson, "Matthew Prior," New Princeton Review, 6 (November 1888): 281-311.
  • Oswald Doughty, "Matthew Prior (1664-1721)," in his The English Lyric in the Age of Reason (London: O'Connor, 1922), pp. 46-56.
  • Doughty, "The Poet of the `Familiar Style,'" English Studies, 7 (February 1925): 5-10.
  • Majl Ewing, "Musical Settings of Prior's Lyrics in the 18th Century," ELH, 10 (June 1943): 159-171.
  • Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry, volume 1: 1700-1740. Protestantism and the Cult of Sentiment (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939).
  • Henry Fielding, The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. Written in Imitation of the Manner of Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote (London: A. Millar, 1742).
  • Caroline Goad, Horace in the English Literature of the Eighteenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1918).
  • Oliver Goldsmith, Introduction to The Beauties of English Poesy, volume 2, in The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Turk's Head Edition, edited by Peter Cunningham (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908).
  • John Higby, "Ideas and Art in Prior's Dialogues of the Dead," Enlightenment Essays, 5 (Summer 1974): 62-69.
  • Ian Jack, "The `Choice of Life' in Johnson and Prior," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 49 (October 1950): 523-30.
  • James William Johnson, The Formation of English Neo-Classical Thought (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967).
  • Johnson, "Rasselas and His Ancestors," Notes and Queries, 204 (May 1959): 185-188.
  • Frederick M. Keener, English Dialogues of the Dead: A Critical History, Anthology, and a Check List (New York: Columbia University Press, 1973).
  • R[obert] W[yndham] Ketton-Cremer, Matthew Prior (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957).
  • Kathleen M. Lynch, Jacob Tonson: Kit-Cat Publisher (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1971).
  • Maynard Mack, "Matthew Prior: et multa prior arte," Sewanee Review, 68 (Winter 1960): 165-176.
  • T. K. Meier, "Prior's Adaptation of `The Nutbrown Maid,'" Moderna Sprak (Stockholm), 68 (1974): 331-336.
  • Richard Morton, "Matthew Prior's Dialogues of the Dead," Ball State University Forum, 8 (Summer 1967): 73-78.
  • Alexander Pope, and others, "Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus," in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, in Prose, volume 2 (London: Printed for J. & P. Knapton, 1741).
  • Harry Ransom, "The Rewards of Authorship in the Eighteenth Century," University of Texas Studies in English, 18 (1938): 47-66.
  • E. A. Richards, Hudibras in the Burlesque Tradition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1937).
  • Frances Mayhew Rippy, Matthew Prior (Boston: Hall, 1986).
  • Rippy, "Matthew Prior as the Last Renaissance Man," in Studies in Medieval, Renaissance, American Literature: A Festschrift (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1971), pp. 120-131, 203.
  • Ronald E. Rower, "Pastoral Wars: Matthew Prior's Poems to Cloe," Ball State University Forum, 19 (Spring 1978): 39-49.
  • Owen Ruffhead, The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq. Compiled from Original Manuscripts: with a Critical Essay on His Writings and Genius (London: C. Bathurst, 1769).
  • George Saintsbury, A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day, volume 2 (London: Macmillan, 1908).
  • Saintsbury, The Peace of the Augustans: A Survey of Eighteenth Century Literature as a Place of Rest and Refreshment (London: Bell, 1916).
  • T. B. Shepherd, "John Wesley and Matthew Prior," London Quarterly and Holborn Review (July 1937): 368-373.
  • Walter Sichel, "Matthew Prior," Quarterly Review, 190 (October 1899): 356-380.
  • Robert Southey, Preface to Specimens of the Later English Poets, volume 1 (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, 1807), pp. iii-xxxii.
  • Monroe K. Spears, "Matthew Prior's Attitude toward Natural Science," PMLA, 63 (June 1948): 485-507.
  • Spears, "Matthew Prior's Religion," Philological Quarterly, 27 (April 1948): 159-180.
  • Spears, "The Meaning of Matthew Prior's Alma," ELH, 13 (December 1946): 266-290.
  • Spears, "Some Ethical Aspects of Matthew Prior's Poetry," Studies in Philology, 45 (October 1948): 606-629.
  • W. A. Speck, "Politicians, peers, and publication by subscription 1700-1750," in Isabel Rivers, ed., Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England (Leicester University Press, 1982), pp. 47-68.
  • Joseph Spence, Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men Collected from Conversation , edited by James M. Osborn, 2 volumes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966).
  • William Stebbing, "Two Poet-Politicians: Abraham Cowley, Matthew Prior," in his Some Verdicts of History Reviewed (London: John Murray, 1887), pp. 82-121.
  • Louise Stuart, "Introductory Anecdotes" to The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Wharncliffe, ed. (New York: AMS Press, 1861, 1970), I: 49, 121.
  • James Sutherland, A Preface to Eighteenth Century Poetry (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948).
  • Jonathan Swift, Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, volumes 7 and 8, edited by Herbert Davis (Oxford: Blackwell, 1939).
  • William Makepeace Thackeray, "Prior, Gay, and Pope," in The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, edited by Derek Stanford (London: Grey Walls Press, 1949), pp. 110-146.
  • Harvey Waterman Thayer, "Matthew Prior, His Relation to English Vers de Société," Sewanee Review, 10 (April 1902): 181-198.
  • Thomas Tickell, A Poem, to His Excellency the Lord Privy-Seal on the Prospect of Peace (London: J. Tonson, 1713).
  • Horace Walpole, Horace Walpole's Correspondence, edited by W. S. Lewis and others (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937-1983).
  • Thomas Warton, The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century, volume 3 (London: J. Dodsley, et al., 1781).
  • John Harlan Welsh, "The Earthen Pot: Ups and Downs of Matthew Prior," Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, 1971.
  • John Wesley, "Thoughts on the Character and Writings of Mr. Prior," Arminian Magazine, 5 (November-December 1782): 600-603, 660-665.
  • H. Bunker Wright, "Ideal Copy and Authoritative Text: The Problem of Prior's Poems on Several Occasions (1718)," Modern Philology, 49 (1952): 234-241.
  • Wright, "Matthew Prior and Elizabeth Singer," Philological Quarterly, 24 (January 1945): 71-82.
  • Wright, "Matthew Prior's Cloe and Lisetta," Modern Philology, 36 (August 1938): 9-23.
  • Wright, "Matthew Prior's Funeral," Modern Language Notes, 57 (May 1942): 341-345.
  • Wright, "Matthew Prior's Last Manuscript: `Predestination,'" The British Library Journal, 11 (Autumn 1985): 99-112.
  • Wright, "Matthew Prior's `Welbeloved and Dear Cossen,'" Review of English Studies, 15 (July 1939): 318-323.
  • Wright, "William Jackson on Prior's Use of Montaigne," Modern Language Review, 31 (April 1936): 203-205.
  • Wright and Henry C. Montgomery, "The Art Collection of a Virtuoso in Eighteenth Century England," Art Bulletin, 27 (September 1945): 195-204.