Author: William Stanley Braithwaite
Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 892
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Edson
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2023-11-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1638040737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Cowley died, he was the most famous poet in England. His popularity continued throughout the eighteenth century. Yet Cowley has virtually disappeared from the canon today, even from metaphysical poetry collections, although it was Cowley who occasioned Samuel Johnson’s famous definition of metaphysical poetry. This book considers the circumstances behind Cowley’s falling out of the canon and what he might offer future generations of readers discovering his poetry anew.
Author: Abraham Cowley
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1973-12-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781442639430
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Civil War is a poem which Abraham Cowley (1618-67) did not complete, for political and historical reasons, and of which only the first volume was published; the other two volumes have been considered irrecoverably lost since Cowley's death. Professor Pritchard recently found two copies of the complete poem in a collection of family papers at the Hertfordshire County Record Office and here presents a corrected edition of the first and previously published book, and the text of the hitherto unpublished books two and three. The poem is a major addition to the body of Cowley's poetry; it has close and sometimes surprising connections with much of his other work. It is not only the most extended and important of his political poems but a significant addition to the genre of the political poem. It is also unique as the attempt by a poet of stature to give epic treatment to the events of the English Civil War. Professor Pritchard provides a discussion of the personal, historical, and literary contexts of the poem in the introduction, as well as of textual problems and methods, showing the way in which the poem is shaped both by contemporary history and polemics and by classical and later literary tradition.
Author: Abraham Cowley
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-09-15
Total Pages: 109
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cowley's Essays by Abraham Cowley is a collection of beautiful poems and paragraphs about various topics such as liberty, solitude, and obscurity. Excerpt: "Nunquam minus solus, quam cum solis," is now become a very vulgar saying. Every man and almost every boy for these seventeen hundred years has had it in his mouth. But it was at first spoken by the excellent Scipio, who was without question a most worthy, most happy, and the greatest of all mankind."
Author: Michael Edson
Publisher: Eighteenth Century Moments
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781638040729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"When Cowley died, he was the most famous poet in England. His popularity continued throughout the eighteenth century. Yet Cowley has virtually disappeared from the canon today, even from metaphysical poetry collections, although it was Cowley who occasioned Samuel Johnson's famous definition of metaphysical poetry. This book considers the circumstances behind Cowley's falling out of the canon and what he might offer future generations of readers discovering his poetry anew"--
Author: Patrick Madden
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2010-03-01
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0803230052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reflecting on Montaigne, Virginia Woolf remarked, "The most common actions-a walk, a talk, solitude in one's own orchard-can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind." In Quotidiana, Patrick Madden illuminates these common actions and seemingly commonplace moments, making connections that revise and reconfigure the overlooked and underappreciated.