A collection of quotes and thoughts by Abraham Cowley on poetry, love, pain, unappreciated, vain, friendship, reading, error, garden, age, inspiration and literary.
30 Notable Quotes By Abraham Cowley For The Sonneteer In You
Abraham Cowley was an English poet who lived in the 17th century and is regarded as one of the most important poets of the period, who shaped the literary discourse of his time in a profound way. Cowley started off as a literary personality quite early in life and one of his earliest influences was ‘The Faerie Queene’, an incomplete epic poem. He was without doubt a child prodigy and composed his first epic titled ‘Tragicall History of Piramus’ and ‘Thisbe’, when he was only 10 years old. One of his most important contributions to the craft of writing a poem was the introduction of six line stanzas. By the time he was only 13, he had written two more two more poems titled ‘Constantia and Philetus’ and ‘Elegy on the Death of Dudley, Lord Carlton’. He became a well-known poet even before he had attained the age of 15 and for the rest of his career he continued to produce works of further poetic sophistication. Cowley freely expressed his views, thoughts and wrote on a variety of subjects in his poems. Here is a collection of some of his famous quotes and thoughts by Abraham Cowley from his life, writings, poems and works.