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Prior by Thomas Hudson. Matthew Prior (21 July 1664 – 18 September 1721) was an English poet and diplomat. He is also known as a contributor to The Examiner.
Learn about Matthew Prior, a prominent English poet of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, who influenced British and German literature. Read his biography, major works, and examples of his poetry.
An online exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of Matthew Prior (1664-1721), poet and diplomat, who was a fellow of St John's College. Explore his political and poetic achievements, his diplomatic role in the Treaty of Utrecht, and his influence on later writers.
…with a special urbanity is Matthew Prior, a diplomat and politician of some distinction, who essayed graver themes in Solomon on the Vanity of the World (1718), a disquisition on the vanity of human knowledge, but who also wrote some of the most direct and coolly elegant love poetry of…
Matthew Prior was the most important poet writing in England between the death of John Dryden (1700) and the poetic maturity of Alexander Pope (about 1712). A significant influence on British and German poetry throughout the eighteenth century, Prior had an effect on several different...
Matthew Prior (July 21, 1664 – September 18, 1721) was an English poet and diplomat. Prior was the son of a Nonconformist joiner at Wimborne Minster, East Dorset. His father moved to London, and sent him to Westminster School, under Dr Busby.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) He attended Westminster School, and later studied at St John's, gaining his BA in 1687. After spending some years as a Fellow of the College, and continuing to write poetry, he became secretary to the British ambassador to the Hague, where he was eventually to become involved in drawing up the Treaty of Ryswick at the ...
