For the new year: to the sun. Intended to be sung before Their Majesties on New-Years Day, 1693/4. Written by Mr. Prior at the Hague

People / Organizations

• Matthew Prior (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for J. Tonson, at the Judges-Head near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, 1694

Publication year

1694

ESTC No.

R21857

Grub Street ID

93215

Description

4 p. ; 2°.

Note

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Imprint from colophon

The ode differs considerably from the version given in Prior's "Poems on several occasions" 1709, under the amended title "Hymn to the sun." But the text is identical with that which appears in v. 4 of Dryden's "Miscellanies," where the poem was first reprinted.