Template talk:RQ:Prior Poetical Works

Hymn to Apollo 1 and 2

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Hey. I've been trying to find a date for Prior's Hymn to Apollo to put in Template:RQ:Prior Callimachus1 and Template:RQ:Prior Callimachus2, but can't find it in any of his poetical collections. Can you help out? And this time I promise not to be annoyed if you make a complicated template. --Kriss Barnes (talk) 11:49, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

@Kriss Barnes: hey. It seems pretty hard to find exact dates for a lot of Prior's works. The translations of the two hymns of Callimachus appear to have been published posthumously in Callimachus (1744) John Alney [and Matthew Prior], transl., The Hymns of Callimachus, London: Printed for the author, and sold by C[harles] Davis opposite to Gray's-Inn, Holborn; C[harles] Hitch, in Pater-noster-Row; and R[obert] Dodsley, in Pall-mall, →OCLC, which is not available online. However, they also appear in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior, so I've updated the quotations to use this template. For the entry clang, the 1st edition (1779) misprints the word as chang'd, so I've updated the template to also link to an 1858 edition and have used that instead. — SGconlaw (talk) 16:11, 26 August 2020 (UTC)