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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
43 - Bound volume of MS poems and songs by various authors; n.d. [1681-1703]
Document Reference
Pw V 43/26 (pp 121-31)
Title
MS poem, entitled 'Odi Imitatores Servum Pecus &c', by Matthew Prior; 1685
Level
Piece
Content Description
A detailed description of the volume in which this item appears can be found under the reference Pw V 43.
Text consists of 178 lines in 21 irregular sections.
Dated 1685 in this manuscript.
'In his translation of Ovid's Epistles' in margin by line 104, p 127.
Title Of Work
Odi Imitatores servum Pecus &ca
First Line of Poem
Since the United Cunning of the Stage
Last Line of Poem
And Praise what Durfey not Translating Writ
Language
English
Physical Description
For details of the physical evidence (paper, watermarks, binding etc) of the volume in which this item appears see the entry for Pw V 43.
Related Material
Crum, Index, S 616
University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 356
For other concordances see Index, ELM, III, PrM 349-50 and PrM 352-54
Publication Note
Poems on Affairs of State (1697) p 205
Wright and Spears (edd.), The Literary Works of Matthew Prior (1959), vol 1, p 36
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Persons
Code
PersonName
Dates of existence
NA1124
Prior; Matthew (1664-1721); poet and diplomat
1664-1721
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