Abraham Cowley (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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From time to time, Abraham Cowley interrupted his poetic activity with bits of drama and prose. The former were light, immature attempts: a pastoral drama, Loves Riddle (1638); a Latin comedy entitled Naufragium Joculare (1638); another comedy, The Guardian (1641), hastily put together when Prince Charles passed through Cambridge, but rewritten as Cutter of Coleman-Street (1663). His serious prose is direct and concise, although the pieces tend to repeat the traditional Renaissance theme of solitude. His most notable prose work...
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