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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Prior, Matthew | 26 |
| Prior | 3 |
| Prior, Poems, P.101 | 1 |
| Prior, Poems, P.180 | 1 |
| Prior, Poems, P.43 | 1 |
| Prior, Poems, P.125 | 1 |
| [In Miscellany of Poems By Charles Gildon ... 1692], P.8 | 1 |
| [Bible] | 1 |
| [In Miscellany of Poems By Charles Gildon ... 1692], P.3 | 1 |
| [In Miscellany of Poems By Charles Gildon ... 1692], P.4 | 1 |
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: To Chloe, weeping
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior, Poems, p.180
Date(s): 1709 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: On how the world of nature joins in weeping with his beloved,
yet her tears do not soften her hardheartedness towards him
Title: Cupid mistaken
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior
Date(s): 1709 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Oblique praise of the beauty of a young woman, in which Cupid
shoots his arrow at his mother Venus, having mistaken the one
for the other
Title: The ladle
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior, Poems, p.125
Date(s): 1703
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Witty, humorous tale based on Ovid's story of Baucis and
Philemon, in which a farmer and his wife waste three wishes
granted them by two gods whom they entertain in their home
Title: A simile
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior, Poems, p.101
Date(s): 1706 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Comparison of contemporary aspiring poets and wits,
self-satisfied but lacking in achievement, with a squirrel
playing in a rolling cage, never climbing higher
Title: The ladies looking-glass
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior, Poems, p.43
Date(s): 1703
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Love poem comparing, when walking by the sea with his beloved,
her sudden changes of mood to changes in the sea from calm to
stormy
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: A Dutch proverb
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1709 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Comic proverb. In this copy, Clara (l.7) is identified as Mrs Janey Irish
Title: Celia to Damon
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1703
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Meditation on love, in pastoral mode, by a woman who has aroused the passion of her beloved, fearing future abandonment in favour of a new love