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Title: [unknown]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior
Date(s): 1692
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: On the transience of human youth and beauty. From stanza 3 of Prior's Ode of
1692.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1689
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Extract from Prior's humorous verse epistle to Fleetwood Sheppard, here
fancifully describing his own life in the country
Title: To Doctor Sherlock on his discourse concerning death
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1690
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Extravagant praise of Dr William Sherlock's 'Practical discourse concerning
death' for teaching people (and Britain in general) Christian repentance and a
proper religious attitude to life and death
Title: Part of epistle
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: [In Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692], p.8
Date(s): 1689
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Extracts from Prior's verse epistle to Fleetwood Sheppard, commenting humorously on the latter's life in London and fancifully on his own life in the country
Title: [unknown]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: [In Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692], p.4
Date(s): 1689
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Extracts from Prior's verse epistle to Fleetwood Sheppard, commenting humorously on the theory that poetry is the result of chance, not divine inspiration
Title: [unknown]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: [In Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692], p.3
Date(s): 1689
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Extract from Prior's verse epistle to Fleetwood Sheppard, making out that poetry is the result of divine inspiration
Title: [unknown]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: [In Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692], p.6
Date(s): 1689
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Extract from Prior's verse epistle to Fleetwood Sheppard, on how we need help in writing poetry when children
Title: Advice to a painter. Upon the defeat of the rebells in the West and the
execution of the late Duke of Monmouth. [Latin epigraph]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1685
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Attack on the rebellion led by James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, and his
followers, in the form of advice to a painter about illustrating the stages
of the revolt from planning to Monmouth's death