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Cowley's Essays
Abraham Cowley was the son of Thomas Cowley, stationer, and citizen of London in the parish of St. Michael le Querne, Cheapside. Thomas Cowley signed his will on the 24th of July, 1618, and it was proved on the 11th of the next month by his widow, Thomasine. He left six children, Peter, Audrey, John, William, Katherine, and Thomas, with a child unborn for whom the will made equal provision with the rest. The seventh child, born before the end of the same year, was named Abraham, and lived to take high place among the English Poets. The calm spirit of Cowleys Essays was in all his life. As he tells us in his Essay On Myself, even when he was a very young boy at school, instead of running about on holidays and playing with his fellows, he was wont to steal from them and walk into the fields, either alone with a book or with some one companion, if he could find any of the same temper. He wrote verse when very young, and says, I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there; for I remember when I began to read and to take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mothers parlour (I know not by what accident, for she herself never in her life read any book but of devotion), but there was wont to lie Spensers works. The delight in Spenser wakened all the music in him, and in 1628, in his tenth year, he wrote a Tragical Historie of Pyramus and Thisbe. In his twelfth year Cowley wrote another piece, also in sixteen stanzas, with songs interspersed, which was placed first in the little volume of Poetical Blossoms, by A. C., published in 1633. It was a little quarto of thirty-two leaves, with a portrait of the author, taken at the age of thirteen. This pamphlet, dedicated to the Dean of Westminster, and with introductory verses by Cowley and two of his schoolfellows, contained Constantia and Philetus, with the Pyramus and Thisbe, written earlier, and three pieces written later, namely, two Elegies and A Dream of Elysium. The inscription round the portrait describes Cowley as a Kings Scholar of Westminster School; and Pyramus and Thisbe has a special dedication to the Head Master, Lambert Osbalston. As schoolboy, Cowley tells us that he read the Latin authors, but could not be made to learn grammar rules by rote. He was a candidate at his school in 1636 for a scholarship at Cambridge, but was not elected. In that year, however, he went to Cambridge and obtained a scholarship at Trinity. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 3549
Author: Cowley, Abraham
Release Date: Nov 1, 2002
Format: eBook
Language: English
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