Philip Major

Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature (eBook, PDF)

Exploring Abraham Cowley

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Author of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes, Abraham Cowley made a deep impression on seventeenth-century letters. This volume of essays provides the modern critical attention Cowley's life and writings merit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000711837
• Artikelnr.: 57791312

Autorenporträt

Philip Major is the author of Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration (Routledge, 2013). He has edited collections of essays on the literature of seventeenth-century exile, Thomas Killigrew, John Denham, Clarendon, and (with Andrew Hopper) Thomas Fairfax. He has also written a number of articles and chapters on seventeenth-century literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction:
Philip Major
1 Abraham Cowley and Print: Paratexts and Contexts
Robert Wilcher
2 Laurels for the Conquered: Cowley, Epic, and History
Warren Chernaik
3 Generic Dialogue and the Sublime in Cowley: Epic, Didactic, Pindaric
Philip Hardie
4 Cowley's Epic Experiments
Maggie Kilgour
5 Abraham Cowley and the English literary canon
Gail Mobley
6 Abraham Cowley's 1656 Poems: Form and Context
Victoria Moul
7 The Fruits of Retirement: Political Engagement in the Plantarum Libri Sex
Caroline Spearing
8 Sacred and Secular in Cowley's Essays
Philip Major
9 'An Old and unfashionable building': Cowley's dramatic writing and
rewriting
Stephania Crowther
10 'The Pindarick Way': Cowley's Pindarics and the English Libretto
Isaac Harrison Louth