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 Chernaik3 Generic Dialogue and the Sublime in Cowley: Epic, Didactic, PindaricPhilip Hardie4 Cowley’s Epic Experiments Maggie Kilgour5 Abraham Cowley and the English literary canonGail Mobley6 Abraham Cowley’s 1656 Poems: Form and ContextVictoria Moul7 The Fruits of Retirement: Political Engagement in the Plantarum Libri SexCaroline Spearing8 Sacred and Secular in Cowley’s EssaysPhilip Major9 ‘An Old and unfashionable building’: Cowley’s dramatic writing and rewriting Stephania Crowther10 ‘The Pindarick Way’: Cowley’s Pindarics and the English LibrettoIsaac Harrison Louth