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Monument to Abraham Cowley in Westminster Abbey NPG D33715

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Robert White, printed for Charles Harper, and printed for Jacob Tonson I

A prolific poet, Cowley had a profound impact upon later seventeenth-century poetry. His reputation was short-lived however and had waned by the mid-eighteenth century. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, his first volume of verse, Poetical Blossoms, was published in 1633 when he was fifteen and included poems written from the age of ten. As a Royalist during the English civil wars he was deprived of his Cambridge fellowship in 1643. He joined King Charles I at Oxford before following Queen Henrietta Maria to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.