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Abraham Cowley: The Muse's Hannibal

by Arthur H. Nethercot

Pages: 367

Contributors: Arthur H. Nethercot

Publisher: H. Milford, Oxford University Press

Place of Publication: London

Publication Year: 1931

Subjects: Fiction,Cowley, Abraham,--1618-1667

Table of Contents

Title Page

Preface

Contents

Addenda and Corrigenda

I 'Fit Surculus Arbor'

Ii at Westminster School

Iii 'the Muse's Hannibal'

Iv Plato, and the Laughable Shipwreck

V the First of the 'troubles'

Vi Oxford and the Virgilian Lots

Vii Love's Columbus

Viii Exiles in the Louvre

Ix Pindar in Jersey

X Spy and Apostate

Xi Chained to the Bodleian

Xii Doctor of Medicine and Literary Idol

Xiii the Recall of the Stuarts

Xiv 'the Melancholy Cowley'

Xv the 'Invisible College', Herbs, and Saint-Évremond

Xvi the Gentleman Gardener

Xvii the Sabine Farm

Xviii Montaigne, Epicurus, and Primitive Christianity

Xix Next to Chaucer and Spenser

Xx the Last of the Metaphysical Race

Appendix Documents Relating to Abraham Cowley or His Family

A Note on the Extant Paintings and Engravings of Abraham Cowley

Bibliography

Index

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