Abraham Cowley

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

AH left four manuscript volumes of poetry, three now at the Royal College of Surgeons and one at Aberdeen University .The works that she left unprinted were chiefly songs (some of them pastoral)...