Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature

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.

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