UID:
almahu_9949383610102882
Format:
1 online resource (295 pages)
ISBN:
9781000711837
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1000711838
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9780367808129
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0367808129
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9781000711981
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1000711986
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9781000712131
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1000712133
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Content:
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.
Note:
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Abraham Cowley and Print: Paratexts and Contexts; 2 Laurels for the Conquered: Cowley, Epic, and History; 3 Generic Dialogue and the Sublime in Cowley: Epic, Didactic, Pindaric; 4 Cowley's Epic Experiments; 5 Abraham Cowley and the English Literary Canon; 6 Abraham Cowley's 1656 Poems: Form and Context; 7 The Fruits of Retirement: Political Engagement in the Plantarum Libri Sex; 8 Sacred and Secular in Cowley's Essays
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9 'An Old and Unfashionable Building': Cowley's Dramatic Writing and Rewriting10 'The Pindarick Way': Cowley's Pindarics and the English Libretto; Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Routledge. Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature : Exploring Abraham Cowley. Milton : Routledge, ©2019 ISBN 9780367406349
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9780367808129.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367808129
