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4 unusual facts about Abraham Cowley


Abraham Cowley

The epic, written in a very dreary and turgid manner, but in good rhymed heroic verse, deals with the adventures of King David from his boyhood to the smiting of Amalek by Saul, where it abruptly closes.

One of the most famous odes written after Cowley in the Pindaric tradition is Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality."

His mother was wholly given to works of devotion, but it happened that there lay in her parlour a copy of The Faerie Queene.

Anxiety dream

An English translation of a well-known medieval couplet by seventeenth-century poet Abraham Cowley: "What in the day he fears of future woe / At night in dreams, like truth, affrights his mind".



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Manitoba House

St. Bede's Anglican parish, located in Kinosota, was formed in 1842 by Reverend Abraham Cowley, and is one of the oldest Anglican parishes in Manitoba.