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Abraham Cowley
Abraham Cowley (1618 – 28 July 1667), English
Early life and career
His father, a wealthy citizen, who died shortly before his birth, was a stationer. His mother was wholly given to works of devotion, but it happened that there lay in her parlor a copy of "
As early as 1628, that is, in his tenth year, he composed his "Tragicall History of Piramus and Thisbe", an epic romance written in a six-line stanza, a style of his own invention. It is not too much to say that this work is the most astonishing feat of imaginative precocity on record; it is marked by no great faults of immaturity, and possesses constructive merits of a very high order.
Two years later the child wrote another and still more ambitious poem, "Constantia and Philetus", being sent about the same time to
The author at once became famous, although he had not, even yet, completed his fifteenth year. His next composition was a pastoral comedy, entitled "Love's Riddle", a marvelous production for a boy of sixteen, airy, correct and harmonious in language, and rapid in movement. The style is not without resemblance to that of Randolph, whose earliest works, however, were at that time only just printed.
In 1637 Cowley was elected into
In 1638 "Love's Riddle" and a Latin comedy, the "Naufragium Joculare", were printed, and in 1641 the passage of Prince Charles through Cambridge gave occasion to the production of another dramatic work, "The Guardian", which was acted before the royal visitor with much success. During the civil war this play was privately performed at
Royalist in exile
The learned quiet of the young poet's life was broken up by the Civil War; he warmly espoused the royalist side. He became a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, but was ejected by the Parliamentarians in 1643. He made his way to Oxford, where he enjoyed the friendship of Lord Falkland, and was tossed, in the tumult of affairs, into the personal confidence of the royal family itself
After the
In spite of these labors he did not refrain from literary industry. During his exile he met with the works of
In spite of the troubles of the times, so fatal to poetic fame, his reputation steadily increased, and when, on his return to England in 1656, he published a volume of his collected poetical works, he found himself without a rival in public esteem. This volume included the later works already mentioned, the "Pindarique Odes", the "Davideis", the "Mistress" and some "Miscellanies". Among the latter are to be found Cowley's most vital pieces. This section of his works opens with the famous aspiration::"What shall I do to be for ever known,:And make the coming age my own?"It contains elegies on Wotton, Vandyck, Falkland, William Hervey and Crashaw, the last two being among Cowley's finest poems, brilliant, sonorous and original; the amusing ballad of "The Chronicle", giving a fictitious catalogue of his supposed Imours; various
"The Mistress" was the most popular poetic reading of the age, and is now the least read of all Cowley's works. It was the last and most violent expression of the amatory affectation of the 17th century, an affectation which had been endurable in Donne and other early writers because it had been the vehicle of sincere emotion, but was unendurable in Cowley because in him it represented nothing but a perfunctory exercise, a mere exhibition of literary calisthenics. He appears to have been of a cold, or at least of a timid, disposition; in the face of these elaborately erotic volumes, we are told that to the end of his days he never summoned up courage to speak of love to a single woman in real life. The "Leonora" of "The Chronicle" is said to have been the only woman he ever loved, and she married the brother of his biographer, Sprat.
Return to England
Soon after his return to England he was seized in mistake for another person, and only obtained his liberty on a bail of £1000. In 1658 he revised and altered his play of "The Guardian", and prepared it for the press under the title of "The Cutter of Coleman Street", but it did not appear until 1663. Late in 1658
Wearied with the broils and fatigues of a political life, Cowley obtained permission to retire into the country; through his friend, Lord St Albans, he obtained a property near
Throughout their parallel lives the fame of Cowley completely eclipsed that of Milton, but posterity instantly and finally reversed the judgment of their contemporaries. The poetry of Cowley rapidly fell into a neglect as unjust as the earlier popularity had been. As a prose writer, especially as an essayist, he holds, and will not lose, a high position in literature; as a poet it is hardly possible that he can enjoy more than a very partial revival. The want of nature, the obvious and awkward art, the defective melody of his poems, destroy the interest that their ingenuity and occasional majesty would otherwise excite. He had lofty views of the mission of a poet and an insatiable ambition, but his chief claim to poetic life is the dowry of sonorous lyric style which he passed down to Dryden and his successors of the 18th century.The works of Cowley were collected in 1668, when
"A Satire Against Separatists", printed in 1675, has been variously attributed to Cowley and to
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External links
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* [http://essays.quotidiana.org/cowley/ Essays by Abraham Cowley at Quotidiana.org]
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