Matthew Prior

Matthew Prior Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Essays
  • The Life of Matthew Prior
  • The Augustans: Prior
  • Matthew Prior's Dialogues of the Dead
  • Prior's 'Pritty Spanish Conceit'
  • Idea and Art in Prior's Dialogues of the Dead
  • Pastoral Wars: Matthew Prior's Poems to Cloe
  • The Major Impact of a Minor Poet
  • Dramatic Texture and Philosophical Debate in Prior's Dialogues of the Dead
  • Making 'Intrest and freedom agree': Matthew Prior and the Ethics of Funeral Elegy
  • The English Horace in Defense of Literature: Matthew Prior's Early Satires
  • Matthew Prior's Correspondence
  • An Autobiographical Ballad by Matthew Prior
  • Narrative Transformations: Prior's Art of the Tale
  • Matthew Prior's 'An Epitaph'
  • Convention and Consciousness in Prior's Love Lyrics
  • 'The Most Fatal of All Faults': Samuel Johnson on Prior's Solomon and the Need for Variety
• Further Reading