Matthew Prior
1664 - 1721
Matthew Prior was an English poet, statesman, and diplomat, who played a crucial role in securing the Treaties of Utrecht, serving as Minister Plenipotentiary to France from 1712 to 1715. He is also known as a contributor to The Examiner.Poems
- On A Fart - Let In The House Of Commons
- Solomon on the Vanity of the World, A Poem In Three Books - Power Book III
- Solomon on the Vanity of the World, A Poem In Three Books - Pleasure Book II
- Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind In Three Cantos - Canto I
- A Simile
- Charity : A Paraphrase On 1 Cor Chap 13
- The Turtle And Sparrow An Elegiac Tale
- Seeing The Duke Of Ormond's Picture, At Sir Godfrey Kneller's
- An Ode - Humbly Inscribed To The Queen, On the Glorious Success of Her Majesty's Arms
- Horace, Lib I, Epist IX, Imitated To The Right Honourable Mr Harley
- An Epitaph
- A True Maid