The English writer Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) was among the first to use the Pindaric ode form in English poetry. He contributed importantly to the development of the familiar essay in English.The pos...
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"Abraham Cowley was beloved by every muse he courted," states Henry Felton in his Dissertation on Reading the Classics (1713); Cowley excelled in every literary genre he undertook. In his early years,...
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Abraham Cowley resolved, in a long prose preface to the significant 1656 volume of his poems, to write no more poetry. The tumultuous and tragic years of civil war had, he was certain, proved inimical...
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Abraham Cowley
Abraham Cowley
