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An essay upon satyr, or, A poem on the times : under the names of the golden age, the silver age, the brazen age, and the iron age: to which is added a satyr against Separatists

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Type of record: Book

Title: An essay upon satyr, or, A poem on the times : under the names of the golden age, the silver age, the brazen age, and the iron age: to which is added a satyr against Separatists

Other titles: Foure ages of England

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt/C--

Creator(s): A. C

Additional creator(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) (Other)

Related people: Cowley, Abraham

Publisher: Printed for Tho. Dring

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1680

Language: English

Size and medium: [i], 88 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/268873

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017707779705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Postscript to the "Essay" signed "A.C."; this poem was first published under the title "The foure ages of England", 1648, but repudiated by Abraham Cowley in the preface to "Poems", 1656.


"A satyr against Separatists", here preceded by an unsigned poem, "To my Lord Lieutenant or Ireland", has been variously ascribed, but is now generally attributed to Abraham Cowley [cf. Noyes & Mead, in Univ. of Calif. pubns. in English, 7(3), 1948].


P. 87 misnumbered 69.


"Essay upon satyr" anon., by A.C.; "Satyr against Separatists" anon., by Abraham Cowley.


Single unsigned leaf preceding B1.


Wing E3299.

Additional description

Cropped, affecting catchwords, etc. Wanting a leaf/leaves before the title-page

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