The foure ages of England : or, The iron age. With other select poems
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Type of record: Book
Title: The foure ages of England : or, The iron age. With other select poems
Classmark: BC Lt d/C--
Creator(s): A. C
Additional creator(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) (Other)
Related people: Cowley, Abraham; Cowley, Abraham
Publisher: [s.n.]
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): 1648
Language: English
Size and medium: [6], 70, [4] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/268067
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017602719705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Although ascribed to Cowley on the title page of this edition, "The foure ages" was repudiated by him in the Preface to "Poems", 1656, and this is now thought to be correct on stylistic grounds etc. (see G.R. Noyes and H.R. Read "An essay upon satyr [etc.] in University of California Publications in English 7 (3), 1948). The Postscript to "The iron age" is "signed" A.C.
The work is divided into four sections, "The golden age", "The silver age", "The brazen age" and "The iron age", the latter part being by far the longest.
Pages 61-2: "To my Lord Lieutenant of Ireland", an unsigned poem.
Pages 63-70: "A satyre against separatists", an unsigned poem now thought to be by Abraham Cowley (see Noyes and Mead), but which has also been attributed to John Taylor, the "water poet" and Peter Hausted.
Dedication signed in Greek, Philokarlo, [i.e. a friend or supporter of Charles I, then imprisoned].
Last two leaves blank.
Wing C6671.
Additional description
Wormholed in inner margins affecting a few words
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