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Abraham Cowley: Poetry & Prose: With Thomas Sprat's Life and Observations by Dryden, Addison, Johnson and others
L. C. Martin (ed.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published in print:
1949
ISBN:
9780199607693
Published online:
September 2012
EISBN:
9780191733819
DOI:
10.1093/actrade/9780199607693.book.1
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Front Matter
Frontispiece
INTRODUCTION
COWLEY'S LIFE
WORKS OF REFERENCE
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An Account of the LIFE AND WRITINGS OF Mr ABRAHAM COWLEY. Written to Mr M. CLIFFORD.
DRYDEN ON COWLEY
ADDISON ON COWLEY
POPE ON COWLEY From the Epistle to Augustus, 1737
JOHNSON ON COWLEY From Lives of the Poets, 1779
COWPER ON COWLEY From The Task, Book IV, 1785
COLERIDGE ON COWLEY From Biographia Literaria, 1817
LAMB ON COWLEY From Mrs. Leicester's School and Other Writings ('Table-Talk and Criticism'), 1885
SAINTSBURY ON COWLEY From A History of English Prosody, 1908
SIR HERBERT GRIERSON ON COWLEY From Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century, 1921
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Selections from ABRAHAM COWLEY
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Sylva
On the Praise of Poetry
Upon the Shortness of Mans Life
To the Duchess of Buckingham
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Miscellanies
The Chronicle
Drinking
The Account
The Grasshopper
Ode. of Wit
To Sir William Davenant
On the Death of Sir Henry Wooton
On the Death of Mr. William Hervey
On the Death of Mr. Crashaw
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The Mistress
The Spring
The Change
The Wish
My Diet
Love and Life
Against Hope
For Hope
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Davideis, Book I
The Proposition. the Invocation
A Description of Hell
A Description of Heaven
A Digression Concerning Music
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Pindaric Odes
The Praise of Pindar
The Muse
To Mr. Hobs
Destiny
The Resurrection
Hymn. to light
To the Royal Society
Preface to POEMS (1656)
Preface to PINDARIQUE ODES
From A proposition for the advancement of experimental philosophy
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Essays
1. Of Solitude
2. Of Obscurity
3. The Garden
4. Of Greatness
5. The dangers of an Honest man in much Company
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6. The Danger of Procrastination
Mart. Lib. 5. Epigr. 59
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Of my Self
Martial. L. 10. Ep. 47
Letter to Dr Richard Busby
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NOTES
[3.80.4.147]
3.80.4.147
