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.

• Introduction: Philip Major 1 Abraham Cowley and Print: Paratexts and Contexts Robert Wilcher 2 Laurels for the Conquered: Cowley, Epic, and History Warren Chernaik3 Generic Dialogue and the Sublime in Cowley: Epic, Didactic, PindaricPhilip Hardie4 Cowley’s Epic Experiments Maggie Kilgour5 Abraham Cowley and the English literary canonGail Mobley6 Abraham Cowley’s 1656 Poems: Form and ContextVictoria Moul7 The Fruits of Retirement: Political Engagement in the Plantarum Libri SexCaroline Spearing8 Sacred and Secular in Cowley’s EssaysPhilip Major9 ‘An Old and unfashionable building’: Cowley’s dramatic writing and rewriting Stephania Crowther10 ‘The Pindarick Way’: Cowley’s Pindarics and the English LibrettoIsaac Harrison Louth

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.

• Introduction: Philip Major 1 Abraham Cowley and Print: Paratexts and Contexts Robert Wilcher 2 Laurels for the Conquered: Cowley, Epic, and History Warren Chernaik3 Generic Dialogue and the Sublime in Cowley: Epic, Didactic, PindaricPhilip Hardie4 Cowley’s Epic Experiments Maggie Kilgour5 Abraham Cowley and the English literary canonGail Mobley6 Abraham Cowley’s 1656 Poems: Form and ContextVictoria Moul7 The Fruits of Retirement: Political Engagement in the Plantarum Libri SexCaroline Spearing8 Sacred and Secular in Cowley’s EssaysPhilip Major9 ‘An Old and unfashionable building’: Cowley’s dramatic writing and rewriting Stephania Crowther10 ‘The Pindarick Way’: Cowley’s Pindarics and the English LibrettoIsaac Harrison Louth

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.

• Introduction: Philip Major 1 Abraham Cowley and Print: Paratexts and Contexts Robert Wilcher 2 Laurels for the Conquered: Cowley, Epic, and History Warren Chernaik3 Generic Dialogue and the Sublime in Cowley: Epic, Didactic, PindaricPhilip Hardie4 Cowley’s Epic Experiments Maggie Kilgour5 Abraham Cowley and the English literary canonGail Mobley6 Abraham Cowley’s 1656 Poems: Form and ContextVictoria Moul7 The Fruits of Retirement: Political Engagement in the Plantarum Libri SexCaroline Spearing8 Sacred and Secular in Cowley’s EssaysPhilip Major9 ‘An Old and unfashionable building’: Cowley’s dramatic writing and rewriting Stephania Crowther10 ‘The Pindarick Way’: Cowley’s Pindarics and the English LibrettoIsaac Harrison Louth