The Abraham Cowley
Text and Image Archive
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links, Image-references
keyed to the Latin line-numbers, Texts, editions, and
early illustrations, Anatomica, Emblematica, Some portraits of
Abraham Cowley, Botanica, Numismatica, Mythica, Art, nature, and
wonder, Old World
cultural histories, New World cultural
reckonings, Civil
War England and aftermath, English
Civil War chronology and commentary, Images of
resurgence, Latin-English Cowley
parallel texts (Plantarum
4.1-48; "Hymnus in Lucem"
-- "To light"; "Solitudo" --
"Solitude"; Ode "Quid
relinquendos" -- "Why dost thou"; "The Living Author's Epitaph," Latin, Englished by various hands), Related short works
not by Cowley, Ovid Illustrated (1563), Pegasean
trick-rider (desultor), Garden
microcosm, Gardening
in a circle / The gardener as Orpheus, Theatrum
Botanicum, Pageant of the
Four Continents, Earth
the planter / Four seasons' fecundity, Flora in the
garden, Flora and
Pomona, The lord of the harvest / A dance to the music of time, Virtual standpoints: the power of outlandishness, Famous
Orpheus: some points of departure, Man ex tree, First
things, Cosmic
coordinates, Solar
Currency, Ripa's
Iconologia and Other Emblem Links, Aristotle and
Phyllis, Young man
and American wild women, The American Amazon, Virtue of the Romans / Roma
as Amazon, The Isle of the Amazons, Amazon
en garde?, Bacchus
out of bounds / Savior Hercules, Some Labors
of Hercules, Herculean
Virtue, Out-bruting
the brutes, Venus ready
for battle, When
the worm turns / The Theater of England's Miseries, Charles I on the
scaffold, Orpheus
his Descerpcion on Charles I's beheading, Cromwell and
adversaries, Sprouting
trunk, Lower plant
emblematics, The Royal
Oak, Bacchus
Turn'd Doctor, A mirror of
some health-care, Living
chained to the dead
2001 was the 350th anniversary of Charles II's
defeat and escape from the Battle
of Worcester, a main theme of Cowley's Plantarum.
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