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Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature

Exploring Abraham Cowley

Philip Major author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:25th Sep '19

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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.

ISBN: 9780367406349

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 535g

280 pages