Author:Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
(1618–1667)

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Collected works

Poetical blossomes (1633)
The mistresse, or Severall copies of love-verses (1647)
The foure ages of England, or, The iron age with other select poems (1648)
Poems (1656)
Verses, written upon several occasions (1663)
The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley consisting of those which were formerly printed, and those which he design'd for the press, now published out of the authors original copies (1668)
The Works of Abraham Cowley (1806), in 3 vols., edited by John Aikin

Volume 1 (transcription project)

Volume 2 (transcription project)

Volume 3 (transcription project)

Essays (1886), edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Henry Morley
Abraham Cowley: Essays, plays and sundry verses (1906), edited by Alfred Rayney Waller IA
Cowley: Prose works (1909), edited by Joseph Rawson Lumby IA

Plays

Naufragium ioculare comædia: publicè coram Academicis acta, in Collegio S S. et individuæ Trinitatis. 4⁰. nonas Feb. An. Dom. 1638 (1638)
Loves Riddle (1638)
The Guardian (1641)
Cutter of Coleman-street (1663)

Poetry

"To Sir William D'Avenant, Upon His Two First Books of Gondibert, Finish'd before his Voyage to America"
"Against Fruition"
"Against Hope"
"An Answer to a Copy of Verses Sent Me to Jersey"
"Bathing in the River"
"The Chronicle, A Ballad"
"The Concealment"
"Constantia and Philetus"
"Counsel"
"The Country Life", included in Of Agriculture
"A Dream of Elysium"
"The Despair"
"Drinking"
"An Elegie on the Death of the Right Honourable Dudley Lord Carleton"
"An Elegie on the Death of my Loving Friend and Cousen, Master Richard Clerke"
"An Elegie on the Death of John Littleton Esquire"
"An Elegie on the Death of Mris Anne Whitfield"
"The Given Heart"
"Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good!", included in Of Solitude
"Happy art thou whom God does bless", include in The Garden
"The Heart Breaking"
"Inconstancy"
"The Innocent Ill"
"The Motto"
"Ode. In imitation of Horace's Ode"
"Ode Upon Liberty", included in Of Liberty
"Of Wit"
"On the Death of Mr. Crashaw"
"On the Death of Mr. William Hervey"
"On the Death of Sir Henry Wooton"
"The Parting"
"Piramus and Thisbe"
"The Puritan and the Papist", 1643
"Reason, the Use of it in Divine Matters"
"Resolved to be Beloved"
"The Resurrection"
"Sleep"
"The Swallow"
"Sylva"
"To the Lord Falkland"
"The Tree of Knowledge"
"The Usurpation"
"The Welcome"
"The Wish"
"Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit", included in The Shortness of Life and Uncertainty of Riches
"Written in the Juice of a Lemon"

Translations

Works about Cowley

"Abraham Cowley," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (pp. 27−28), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
An Account of the Life and Writings of Mr Abraham Cowley, written to Mr. M. Clifford by Thomas Sprat in "The works of Mr Abraham Cowley" (1688) by Abraham Cowley
"Cowley" in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, pp.1-95.
"Cowley, Abraham," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Cowley, Abraham," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Cowley, Abraham," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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