Abraham Cowley

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

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...

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...