The Essays and Other Prose Writings
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Excerpt from The Essays and Other Prose Writings: Edited by Alfred B. Gough Abraham Cowley was the seventh and posthumous child of Thomas Cowley, a prosperous stationer (or, according to Dr. Johnson, a grocer) and citizen of London, and was born in the parish of St. Dunstan in the West, Fleet Street, late in the year 1618. He thus belongs to the group of poets between Milton and Dryden, the generation of Crashaw, Henry More, and Vaughan, of Butler, Cleveland, Denham, Love lace, and Marvell. In their several ways these writers mark the transition from the rich, exuberant fancy of the Elizabethan tradition to the more formal, logical, and prosaic manner of the ´classical´ age. In poetic fame Cowley outshone them all in his own day, though now he is chiefly remembered for the unaffected and graceful prose contained in the present volume. The rare precocity of the child´s mind was probably stimulated by the companionship of his older brothers and sisters, while his mother, who read only books of devotion, gave his thoughts a serious bent, and his language a biblical. colouring. Cowley has told us in his essay ´Of Myself´ how his poetic fancy and ambition were kindled through his finding Spenser´s Faerie Queene in the house, and reading it to the end before he was twelve. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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