√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 17 October (in letter begun 16 October) 1790, on visit from his friend, and Berry's cous... | Horace Walpole | Matthew Prior | The Turtle and the Sparrow: A Tale | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 17 October (in letter begun 16 October) 1790, on visit from his friend, and Berry's cous... | Horace Walpole | Matthew Prior | Apollo and Daphne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday, 11th February,
Spent evening at home . Edie painting poppy heads for someone. This modern idea may sound... | Gerald Moore | Matthew Prior | Shorter Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man wh... | Samuel Johnson | Matthew Prior | Alexis shunn'd his fellow swains | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man wh... | Hester Thrale | Matthew Prior | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of... | James Boswell | Matthew Prior | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of... | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Matthew Prior | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of... | Samuel Johnson | Matthew Prior | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Matthew Prior | Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Matthew Prior | Alma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824:
'Who is Mr. Prior? I have read his "Life of Burke" with the g... | Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool | Prior | Life of Burke | Unknown |