Miscellanies (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Abraham Cowley
- First Published: 1656
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Elegy
- Subjects: France or French people, Exile or expatriates, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Seventeenth century, Letter writing, Kings, queens, or royalty, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism
Critical Evaluation:
The reputation of Abraham Cowley has been affected more than that of many other English poets by the vicissitudes of literary taste. His contemporaries considered him one of their most distinguished poets. John Milton ranked him with William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser. John Dryden considered him a model, following Cowley’s example in writing Pindaric odes. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, Cowley had fallen from favor, largely through the influential judgments rendered against him by Samuel Johnson in Lives of the Poets...
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