Philosophical poem · 1718

Alma: or, the Progress of the Mind

A Poem in Three Cantos

by Matthew Prior

Prior's tetrameter conversation between Matthew and Richard, in the manner of Hudibras, on the seat of the soul: Alma, the mind, climbs through the body from the toes to the head.

Contents · 3 parts

• Canto Iabout 520 lines
• Canto IIabout 550 lines
• Canto IIIabout 610 lines

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