Abraham Cowley

(1618-1667)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667 NRA: Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) Poet DNB: Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667), poet LBT ID: AbCowle1667 VIAF ID: 95254963 LOC ID: n50018768	B/BAP: 1618 DIED: 1667-07-28
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English royalist poet; his most enduring work was his posthumously-published Essays (1668).
REFERENCES TO Abraham Cowley: Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 13 November 1793 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 5 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 14 December 1793 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [30 May 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Verse 1: p. 6c Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [10 January 1797] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 14 August 1800 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 28 November 1802 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Chauncy Hare Townshend, 12 April 1818 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter V Found 2: ¶ ¶ Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 44 First Verses; Dr. Franklin; Mr. Maurice; Mr. Llwyd. Found 1: ¶ 1n The Author’s Visit to Italy. Found 1: ¶ 211 “Review of Lord Byron and some of His Contemporaries” in Literary Chronicle (26 January 1828) 49-52 Found 1: ¶ 17 Maurice, Frederick Denison, 1805-1872, “Sketches of Contemporary Authors. Mr. Moore” in The Athenaeum 1 (22 February 1828) 129-30 Found 1: ¶ Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter IV Found 2: ¶ 10 ¶ 12 Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: to 1806 Found 1: ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1808 Found 1: ¶ 15 Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 9 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron. Part II” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (March 1830) 421-54 Found 1: ¶ 50 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Moore’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 1 (March 1830) 129-43 Found 1: ¶ 54 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. V.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 35 (December 1832) 521-544 Found 1: ¶ 2 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter I. 1753-1781 Found 1: ¶ 10 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1778-83 Found 1: ¶ 8 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. I. 1791-93 Ch. IX. 1802-03 Ch. XXIII. 1818 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 7: W. H. Pyne Verse 2: p. 77a p. 77a Ch. 17: Wellesleys Found 1: ¶ 3 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward IV Found 1: ¶ n2 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 9 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter X. Found 1: ¶ 9 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 1 Found 1: ¶ 11 Chapter 4 Found 1: ¶ 31 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XVI Found 2: ¶ 20 ¶ 24 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter X Found 3: ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 18 Ch. XXI Found 1: ¶ 40 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VIII. 1818-19. Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1796 Found 1: ¶ n2 Letters: 1797 Found 1: ¶ 10 Letters: 1800