The Abraham Cowley
Text and Image Archive
Emblematica
Colonna:
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
: The strife of love in a dream (1499; 1546)
Alciati:
Emblemata
, ed. Mignault (1621)
Aneau:
Picta Poesis
(1564)
Maier:
Atalanta Fugiens
(1618)
Dodona's Grove, or the Vocall Forest
(1640-50)
When the Worm Turns /
The Theater of England's Miseries
(1650-51)
Fuller:
The Speech of Flowers, Partly Moral, Partly Mystical
(1655)
Still talking: the language of flowers
Living chained to the dead
History stalling for time
Emblem of Cambridge, Cowley's
Alma Mater
Flora attired by the Elements
When they a-nutting went
Man ex tree; link to Geerhardt de Jode:
Mikrokosmos
Link to Cromwell felling "The Royall Oake of Brittayne"
(from John Cooper,
Oliver the First
[London, 1999])
Link to
"The Embleme of ENGLANDS Distractions"
(William Faithorne, 1658)
Virtual standpoints: the power of outlandishness
/
Additional emblem links
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