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Abraham Cowley

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Abraham Cowley , 1618-67, one of the English metaphysical poets . He published his first volume of verse, Poetical Blossoms (1633), when he was 15. While a student at Cambridge, Cowley wrote three plays and began the scriptural epic Davideis (1656), in which he developed the use of the couplet as a vehicle for narrative verse. As a result of the Puritan uprising he left Cambridge and in 1656 went to France, where he served as secretary and royalist agent for Queen Henrietta Maria. Cowley's principal works include The Mistress (1647), a love cycle written in the manner of John Donne; ... Read more
Abraham Cowley
Encyclopedia of World Biography Abraham Cowley The English writer Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) was among the first to use the Pindaric ode form...familiar essay in English. The posthumous son of a merchant, Abraham Cowley was born in London and educated at Westminster and Trinity... Read more
Cowley, Abraham
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Cowley, Abraham (1618–67), scholar and fellow of...1638. On the outbreak of the Civil War Cowley left Cambridge for Oxford where he contributed...bestowed on him the epitaph, ‘That Mr Cowley had not left a better man behind him in... Read more

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"The eternal now": Virgilian echoes and Miltonic premonitions in Cowley's Davideis.(Abraham Cowley)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Abraham Cowley's Davideis, the four-book epic fragment based on the...epic in English (Dykstal 95; Greene 366). Thomas Sprat, Cowley's friend, biographer, and executor, identifies Cowley's youthful audacity in attempting such a design while... Read more
Cowley's 'Pindarique Odes' and the politics of the inter-regnum. (Abraham Cowley)
Magazine article from: Criticism; 6/22/1993; ; 700+ words ; Cowley's Pindarique Odes first appeared in his 1656 volume of Poems together with the Mistresse, the other poems of the Miscellanies and the Davideis. If we believe Sprat's and Cowley's own account, nothing could have been further from Cowley's mind when he created them than the political situation in ... Read more
Implied Law in the Abraham Narrative: A Literary and Theological Analysis.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 6/22/2005; ; 697 words ; Implied Law in the Abraham Narrative: A Literary and Theological Analysis, by James K...God sent illness and plagues; and the Pharaoh implies that Abraham ought to have revealed that Sarai was his wife. Through such...Syntax: An Outline (!) and occasionally Gesenius-Kautzsche-Cowley (1910) were used; but ... Read more
Focus: Awards - Why Britain is still going for a gong As a collector pays pounds 80,000 for a World Cup winner's medal, Jason Cowley explores the allure of badges of honour
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/31/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...of cash. From there, the modern cult of the medal was born." Charles I was the first to appoint an official chief medallist, Abraham van der Doort, who "attained to that art, mastery, science and skill of embossing and making medals, great and small, moulded... Read more
Could Modern Medicine Save Abe?(Abraham Lincoln)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 7/2/2007; ; 372 words ; ...bullet from his .44-caliber single-shot Derringer pistol into Abraham Lincoln's head. The low-velocity bullet entered the left side...lived, says Thomas Scalea, the physician in chief at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, an emergency care facility in Baltimore... Read more
The Writing of Royalism 1628-1660. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...64.95. ISBN 0-521-66183-8. When Abraham Cowley published the 1656 edition of...writers such as John Cleveland, Abraham Cowley, and William Davenant as well...to the Christian poetics that Abraham Cowley combines with the rational poetics... Read more
The Prince and the genes
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 5/18/2000; ; 700+ words ; Life, according to the English poet Abraham Cowley, is an incurable disease. Or so we once thought. Medical knowledge...all recognition since the dark days of the 17th century when Cowley scratched out such fatalistic sentiments. Now the human race... Read more
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Magazine article from: Business Insurance; 6/14/1999; ; 700+ words ; The world's a scene of changes, poet Abraham Cowley said. Five years ago, the so-called tiger economies of Southeast Asia were roaring and the former Soviet Union was a magnet for... Read more
Panel finds that R&D relationships need to be remodeled: R&D Magazine's latest IRDO CEO roundtable discussion addressed the effects of a down economy, changing tech transfer working relationships, and identified ways to increase the flow of innovative products once the economy improves. (CEO Roundtable).(2002 Independent R&D Organization CEO Roundtable)(Panel Discussion)
Magazine article from: R & D; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; The world's a scene of changes, said English poet Abraham Cowley. To be sure, there have been a great many, mostly negative, changes over the past 18 months. Changes in the form of an economic... Read more
GREEN ON THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/26/1997; ; 700+ words ; "God the first garden made, and the first city Cain," wrote 17th-century poet Abraham Cowley. Clearly he wasn't talking about New York's Manhattan, but he could have been. Like the song says, New York is "a wonderful town... Read more

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