Abraham Cowley

Mention on the title-page of her translations from French emphasizes her interest in French literary and musical culture. In the wake of Marriott's edition, KP had told Cotterell she had mixed feelings about his...

Her poetry as a whole is conspicuous for its versatility. Her major early influences (Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley ) were succeeded by Dryden . (She always denied any influence from Pope .) But...

Wordsworth observed of her poetry anthologies in general that they mixed the contemporary with the canonical: Spenser , Cowley . . . stand side by side with Monckton Milnes and Miss Barrett .

These poems succeed in making the Christian life of resignation and unselfishness into a series of heroic trials and combats. MA has the makings of a fine poet in the grand style; she evidently learned...

These poems praise the retired life, withdrawn from worldly ambition, in the manner of Cowley . The contrast which Philips draws between private worth and public corruption belongs both to her public and private statements...

JB writes to one male friend (my Adopted Brother) on his approaching marriage, not to congratulate but to dissuade. She reflects her intimate knowledge of the work of Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley

In some sense, therefore, she dictated the terms of the anthology. Its full title was The Virgin Muse: Being a Collection of Poems from our Most Celebrated English Poets, designed for the use of...

The poem in its later version, headed with a quotation from Virgil , opens: Unequal, how shall I the search begin, / Or paint with artless hand the awful scene?JCM calls on the...

Thomas Lawrence , in his elegy, aspires to inherit LJC 's poetic gift, by seizing her discarded mantle (as Elisha in the Bible did the prophet's mantle of Elijah). In view of recent critical debate...

This illustrated story of a young girl's childhood and education has some autobiographical elements (Howitt calls it her own early life), including the profession of the army surgeon father of the eponymous character...

They include a novel in five letters (Indamora to Lindamira), a verse-and-prose romance (The Adventurer), and poems in various pastoral and classical modes—epistles, lyrics, etc. The novel gives a voice to...

AB 's poems were mostly opportunistic in some way, seizing the chances offered her, either by projects of literary colleagues or by royal or other grand occasions, to make some money. She makes much use...

This offers praise to God for the king's safe return from waging war in Holland, but deplores the money spent in official welcome celebrations, which would have been better given to the poor. By...

MD makes skilful use of letters to project character, political issues, and gender interaction. Her use of significant dates (All Saints' Day, November the fifth) links her with the prophetic tradition of Lady Eleanor Douglas

Among the poems of praise, To Madam Bhen [sic] (then a not uncommon rendering of Behn) adapts from Cowley 's famous praise of Philips the idea of uniting the Strong and Sweet.