Abraham Cowley

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Milestones

By early August 1618

AC , civil servant, poet, and essayist, was born in London, the posthumous seventh son of his father, who was said to be a grocer.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press.
1: 309n2
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et. al., http://SpCol PR 553 J67 1781.
1: 3-4

28 July 1667

AC , civil servant, poet, and essayist, died at Chertsey at under the age of fifty, after catching a chill.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et. al., http://SpCol PR 553 J67 1781.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth

By early August 1618

AC , civil servant, poet, and essayist, was born in London, the posthumous seventh son of his father, who was said to be a grocer.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press.
1: 309n2
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et. al., http://SpCol PR 553 J67 1781.
1: 3-4