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Author:   Philip Major
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9780367406349

ISBN 10:   0367406349
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   25 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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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.

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