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Abraham Cowley (/ˈkli/;[1] 1618 – 28 July 1667) was an English poet and essayist born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, with 14 printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721.[2]

  1. ^ Alan Hager (ed.), The Age of Milton: An Encyclopedia of Major 17th-Century British and American Authors, ABC-CLIO, 2004, p. 89.
  2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography "Abraham Cowley"

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Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley (/ˈkuːli/; 1618 – 28 July 1667) was an English poet and essayist born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English...

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Metaphysical poets

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especially younger poets to fit appropriate circumstances. In the chapter on Abraham Cowley in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), Samuel Johnson...

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Ode

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odes in English were by Abraham Cowley. These were iambic, but had irregular line length patterns and rhyme schemes. Cowley based the principle of his...

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Coca

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pp. 25–27. "The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants". cowley.lib.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-21. "Single...

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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

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the hostile characterisation of the Metaphysical style in the life of Abraham Cowley. Nor can Johnson's prejudices be palliated by the observation in The...

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Aphra Behn

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ISBN 978-0-521-47169-5. "The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants". cowley.lib.virginia.edu. Retrieved 21 January 2022. "[exit...

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Richard Crashaw

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before he's up he's dres't. The writer Abraham Cowley discovered Crashaw living in abject poverty in Paris. Cowley sought help from English Queen Henrietta...

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Oxford religious poetry anthologies

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Elizabeth Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Constable Edith Cooper Abraham Cowley William Cowper George Crabbe Richard Crashaw Samuel Crossman Sir John...

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List of autobiographies

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My Life 1576 Michel de Montaigne Of the Education of Children 1580 Abraham Cowley Of Myself 1668 Colley Cibber An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber...

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Chertsey

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Chertsey with your holy load.") Abraham Cowley, the 17th-century poet, lived in Chertsey after his return from exile. Abraham Cowley Mental Health Unit at St...

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Alexander Balloch Grosart

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the works of Nicholas Breton, Francis Quarles, Dr Joseph Beaumont, Abraham Cowley, Henry More and John Davies of Hereford. The two last-named series were...

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Christiad

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in Book I", was, "a feature later to be copied", by Torquato Tasso, Abraham Cowley, and by John Milton in Paradise Lost. The standard English translations...

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French alexandrine

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rhymes is followed. The result is somewhat analogous to the Pindarics of Abraham Cowley. Two of the most famous works written in vers libres are Jean de La...

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Helleborus niger

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Data related to Helleborus niger at Wikispecies The poetical works of Abraham Cowley: Helleborus niger or, christmas flower. The British flora medica; or...

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1661 in literature

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the publication of Hell's High Court of Justice (below) illustrates. Abraham Cowley's pamphlet The Advancement of Experimental Philosophy helps inspire the...

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List of essayists

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(1780–1832, Great Britain) Cyril Connolly (1903–1974, United Kingdom) Abraham Cowley (1618–1667, Great Britain) A. J. Cronin (1896–1981, Scotland) Samuel...

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The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

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friends Thomas Sprat and Abraham Cowley written in 1666. Horace has the story told by a garrulous countryman, a guise that Cowley takes on with delicate...

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List of books written by children or teenagers

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Little Girl (1920), Shoes of the Wind (1922) and Silverhorn (1924). Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), Tragicall History of Piramus and Thisbe (1628), Poetical...

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Elizabeth Cromwell

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"[citation needed] Other writers portrayed her as unattractive, including Abraham Cowley who, in his play The Cutter of Colman Street (1661), put the following...

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Harvard Classics

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Shakespeare by Ben Jonson On Bacon by Ben Jonson Of Agriculture by Abraham Cowley The Vision of Mirza by Joseph Addison Westminster Abbey by Joseph Addison...

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Pindarics

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during the close of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century. Abraham Cowley, who published fifteen Pindarique Odes in 1656, was the poet most identified...

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The Oxford Book of English Verse

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kindly nurse" Revision also by Quiller-Couch. Poets included were: Abraham Cowley Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux Alexander Brome Alexander Montgomerie Alexander...

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Royal Society

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institute. Similar schemes were expounded by Bengt Skytte and later Abraham Cowley, who wrote in his Proposition for the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy...

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The Cutter of Coleman Street

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English writer Abraham Cowley. It premiered at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre on 16 December 1661, performed by the Duke's Company. Cowley had originally...

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