Matthew Prior

(1664-1721)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721 NRA: Prior Matthew (1664-1721) Poet and Diplomat DNB: Prior, Matthew (1664-1721), poet and diplomat LBT ID: MaPrior1721 VIAF ID: 68976517 LOC ID: n50022591	B/BAP: 1664-07 DIED: 1721-09-18
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English poet and statesman successful in both comic and serious verse collected in Poems on Several Occasions (1718).
REFERENCES TO Matthew Prior: Walter Scott to George Ellis, [November? 1805] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [16 April 1815] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Grahame, James, 1790-1842, Two Letters (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817) Found 1: ¶ 12 Walter Scott to the Duke of Buccleuch, 11 January 1817 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Verse 1: p. 49a Walter Scott to Lady Louisa Stuart, 31 January 1817 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 August 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lord Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to John Bates Dibdin, [14 July 1826] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Verse 1: p. 710a Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Mr. Moore. Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1819 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1805 Found 1: ¶ 40 Chapter II 1817 Verse 1: p. 49a Chapter X 1826 Found 1: ¶ 51 Chapter VIII 1831 Found 1: ¶ 26 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXVI. 1821 Found 1: ¶ 16 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1809 Found 1: ¶ 8 Letters: 1815 Letters: 1823 Found 1: ¶ 1 Letters: 1826 Found 1: ¶ 2