Author of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes, Abraham Cowley made a deep impression on seventeenth-century letters, attested by his extravagant funeral and his burial next to Chaucer and Spenser in Westminster Abbey. Ejected from Cambridge for his politics, he found refuge in royalist Oxford before seeing long service as secretary to Queen Henrietta Maria, and as a Crown agent, on the continent. In the mid-1650s he returned to England, was imprisoned and made an accommodation with the Cromwellian regime. This volume of essays…mehr
Author of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes, Abraham Cowley made a deep impression on seventeenth-century letters, attested by his extravagant funeral and his burial next to Chaucer and Spenser in Westminster Abbey. Ejected from Cambridge for his politics, he found refuge in royalist Oxford before seeing long service as secretary to Queen Henrietta Maria, and as a Crown agent, on the continent. In the mid-1650s he returned to England, was imprisoned and made an accommodation with the Cromwellian regime. This volume of essays provides the modern critical attention Cowley's life and writings merit.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Philip Major is the author of Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration (Routledge, 2013). He has edited collections of essays on the literature of seventeenth-century exile, Thomas Killigrew, John Denham, Clarendon, and (with Andrew Hopper) Thomas Fairfax. He has also written a number of articles and chapters on seventeenth-century literature.
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Introduction: Philip Major 1 Abraham Cowley and Print: Paratexts and Contexts Robert Wilcher 2 Laurels for the Conquered: Cowley, Epic, and History Warren Chernaik 3 Generic Dialogue and the Sublime in Cowley: Epic, Didactic, Pindaric Philip Hardie 4 Cowley's Epic Experiments Maggie Kilgour 5 Abraham Cowley and the English literary canon Gail Mobley 6 Abraham Cowley's 1656 Poems: Form and Context Victoria Moul 7 The Fruits of Retirement: Political Engagement in the Plantarum Libri Sex Caroline Spearing 8 Sacred and Secular in Cowley's Essays Philip Major 9 'An Old and unfashionable building': Cowley's dramatic writing and rewriting Stephania Crowther 10 'The Pindarick Way': Cowley's Pindarics and the English Libretto Isaac Harrison Louth
Introduction: Philip Major 1 Abraham Cowley and Print: Paratexts and Contexts Robert Wilcher 2 Laurels for the Conquered: Cowley, Epic, and History Warren Chernaik 3 Generic Dialogue and the Sublime in Cowley: Epic, Didactic, Pindaric Philip Hardie 4 Cowley's Epic Experiments Maggie Kilgour 5 Abraham Cowley and the English literary canon Gail Mobley 6 Abraham Cowley's 1656 Poems: Form and Context Victoria Moul 7 The Fruits of Retirement: Political Engagement in the Plantarum Libri Sex Caroline Spearing 8 Sacred and Secular in Cowley's Essays Philip Major 9 'An Old and unfashionable building': Cowley's dramatic writing and rewriting Stephania Crowther 10 'The Pindarick Way': Cowley's Pindarics and the English Libretto Isaac Harrison Louth
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