Author:Abraham Cowley

Abraham Cowley
(1618–1667)

Abraham Cowley

Works

Collected works

• Poetical blossomes (1633)
• The mistresse, or Severall copies of love-verses (1647)
• The foure ages of England, or, The iron age with other select poems (1648)
• Poems (1656)
• Verses, written upon several occasions (1663)
• The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley consisting of those which were formerly printed, and those which he design'd for the press, now published out of the authors original copies (1668)
• The Works of Abraham Cowley (1806), in 3 vols., edited by John Aikin

Volume 1 (transcription project)

Volume 2 (transcription project)

Volume 3 (transcription project)

• Essays (1886), edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Henry Morley
• Abraham Cowley: Essays, plays and sundry verses (1906), edited by Alfred Rayney Waller IA
• Cowley: Prose works (1909), edited by Joseph Rawson Lumby IA

Plays

• Naufragium ioculare comædia: publicè coram Academicis acta, in Collegio S S. et individuæ Trinitatis. 4⁰. nonas Feb. An. Dom. 1638 (1638)
• Loves Riddle (1638)
• The Guardian (1641)
• Cutter of Coleman-street (1663)

Poetry

• "To Sir William D'Avenant, Upon His Two First Books of Gondibert, Finish'd before his Voyage to America"
• "Against Fruition"
• "Against Hope"
• "An Answer to a Copy of Verses Sent Me to Jersey"
• "Bathing in the River"
• "The Chronicle, A Ballad"
• "The Concealment"
• "Constantia and Philetus"
• "Counsel"
• "The Country Life", included in Of Agriculture
• "A Dream of Elysium"
• "The Despair"
• "Drinking"
• "An Elegie on the Death of the Right Honourable Dudley Lord Carleton"
• "An Elegie on the Death of my Loving Friend and Cousen, Master Richard Clerke"
• "An Elegie on the Death of John Littleton Esquire"
• "An Elegie on the Death of Mris Anne Whitfield"
• "The Given Heart"
• "Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good!", included in Of Solitude
• "Happy art thou whom God does bless", include in The Garden
• "The Heart Breaking"
• "Inconstancy"
• "The Innocent Ill"
• "The Motto"
• "Ode. In imitation of Horace's Ode"
• "Ode Upon Liberty", included in Of Liberty
• "Of Wit"
• "On the Death of Mr. Crashaw"
• "On the Death of Mr. William Hervey"
• "On the Death of Sir Henry Wooton"
• "The Parting"
• "Piramus and Thisbe"
• "The Puritan and the Papist", 1643
• "Reason, the Use of it in Divine Matters"
• "Resolved to be Beloved"
• "The Resurrection"
• "Sleep"
• "The Swallow"
• "Sylva"
• "To the Lord Falkland"
• "The Tree of Knowledge"
• "The Usurpation"
• "The Welcome"
• "The Wish"
• "Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit", included in The Shortness of Life and Uncertainty of Riches
• "Written in the Juice of a Lemon"

Translations

Pindar

• "The First Nemeæan Ode of Pindar"

Martial

• Lib. 2. Vota tui breviter, etc., included in Of Liberty
• Lib. 2. Vis fieri Liber, etc., included in Of Liberty
• Lib. 2. Quod to nomine? etc., included in Of Liberty
• Lib. 5, Ep. 59., included in The Danger Of Procrastination
• Lib. 2, Ep. 90., included in The Danger Of Procrastination
• Lib. 10, Ep. 47., included in Of Myself
• Lib. 10. Ep. 96., included in Of Myself

Claudian

• Claudian's Old Man of Verona., included in The Dangers of an Honest Man in much Company

Seneca

• ex Thyeste, Act 2. Chor., included in Of Obscurity

Virgil

• Georgics—O fortunatus nimium, etc., included in Of Agriculture

Horace

• Epodon. Beatus ille qui procul, etc., included in Of Agriculture
• Lib. 3. Ode 1. Odi profanum vulgus, etc., included in Of Greatness
• I admire, Maecenas, how it comes to pass, included in Of Avarice
• "Inclusam Danaen turris ahenea", included in Of Avarice
• Horace To Fuscus Aristius, included in Of Agriculture
• The Country Mouse, included in Of Agriculture

Works about Cowley

• "Abraham Cowley," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (pp. 27−28), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• An Account of the Life and Writings of Mr Abraham Cowley, written to Mr. M. Clifford by Thomas Sprat in "The works of Mr Abraham Cowley" (1688) by Abraham Cowley
• "Cowley" in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, pp.1-95.
• "Cowley, Abraham," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Cowley, Abraham," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Cowley, Abraham," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)