Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature

Exploring Abraham Cowley

AvPhilip Major

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-13
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:403 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:294
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032240329

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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 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