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Matthew Prior

British poet

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contribution to English literature

  • Beowulf
    In English literature: Thomson, Prior, and Gay

    …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…

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