I. — ŒUVRES DE COWLEY PARUES DE SON VIVANT a) EDITIONS
Poeticall Blossomes. — By À. C. — fit surculus Arbor. London. Printed by B. À. and T.F. for Henry Seile, and are to be sold at his shop at the Signe of the Tygers-head in Sf. Paules Church-yard. 1633.
Poeticall Blossomes. — The second edition. Enlarged by the Author. — fit surculus Arbor. London. Printed by E. P. for Henry Seile, and are to be sold at his shop at the Signe of the Tygers-head in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1636. 3
Les poèmes nouveaux sont groupés sous le titre : Sylva, or, Divers Copies of Verses, Made upon sundry occasions by À. C. London...
Poeticall Blossomes. — The third edition. Enlarged by the Author. — fit surculus Arbor. London. Printed by E. P. for Henry Seile, and are to bee sold at his shop at the signe of the T'igers-head in Fleet-street between the Bridge and the Conduit. 1637.
Sylva...
Loves Riddle. — A Pastorall Comoedie; Written, at the time of his being Kings Scholler in Westminster Schoole, by A. Coiwley. London, Printed by John Dawson, for Henry Seile, and are to be sold at the Tygres head in Fleet-street over against St. Dunstans-Church. 1638.
Naufragium Joculare. — Comoedia : Publice coram Academicis Acta, in Collegii S. S. and Individuae Trinitatis. 4° Nonas Feb., An. Dom. 1638. Authore Abrahamo Cowley. — Mart.
… Non displicuisse meretur Festinat, Lector, qui placuisse tibi.
Londini. Impensis Henrici Seile MDCXXX VIII.
A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist. — By a Scholler in Oxford. Printed in the Yeare M.DC.XLII.
The Mistresse, or Severall Copies of Love-Verses. Written by
Mr. À. Cowley. — Virg. Aen. 4. …Haeret lateri lethalis arundo. London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard. Anno Dorn. 1647.
The Guardian. — À Comedie acted before Prince Charls His Highness, at Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, upon the 12th of March, 1641. Written by Abraham Cowley. London. Printed for John Holden at the Anchor in the New-Exchange, 1650.
Poems. — Viz. I. Miscellanies. II. The Mistress, or, Love-Verses. III Pindarique Odes, and IV. Davideis, or, a Sacred Poem of the Troubles of David. Written by Mr. Cowley. London. Printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince’s Arms in St. Pauls Churchyard. 1656.
Ode upon the Blessed Restoration and Returne of His Sacred Majestie Charls the Second. By A. Cowley. — Virg.
Quod optanti divum promittere nemo Auderet, volvenda dies, en, attulit ultro.
London, Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop on the Lower-walk in the New-Exchange. Anno Dom.
The Visions and Prophecies concerning England, Scotland, and Ireland, of Ezekiel Grebner, son of Obadiah Grebner, son of Paul Grebner who presented the famous book of Prophecies to Queen Elizabeth. London Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the Sign of the Anchor, in the Lowerwalk in the New-Exchange. 1661.
(L’exemplaire du British Museum porte, au lieu de 1661, la correction manuscrite : « 1660, Novemb. ».)
A Vision, concerning his late pretended Highness, Cromwell the Wicked : containing a Discourse in vindication of him, by a pretended Angel, and the confutation thereof, by the author, Abraham Cowley. — Sua cuique Deus fit dira Libido. Virgil. — London. Printed for Henry Herringman at the Anchor in the Lower-walk in the New-Exchange. 1661.
A Proposition for the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy. By A. Cowley. London. Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman:; and are to be sold at his shop at the Sign of the Blew-Anchor in the Lower-walk of the New-Exchange. 1661.
(L’exemplaire du B. M. porte la correction manuscrite « March 1660 ».) Ce titre est suivi d’une préface de l’éditeur. Vient ensuite un second titre :
À Proposition for the Advancement of Learning. By A. Cow-
ley. — Virg. O Fortunati quorum jam Moenia Surgunt ! . London...
Abrahami Couleii Plantarum Libri Duo. — Habeo guod Carmine sanet
el Herbis. Ovid. Met. 10. Londini. Typis J. Flesher, et prostant
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Ts Nath. Brooks sub signo Angeli in vico vulgo dicto Cornhill.
Cutter of Coleman Street. — A Comedy. The scene London in the year 1658. Written by Abraham Cowley. London. Printed for Henry Herringman at the Sign of the Anchor in the Lower-walk in the New-Exchange. Anno. Dom. 1663.
Verses, Lalely Written upon severai Occasions, by Abraham Cowley. London. Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his Shop on the Lower-walk in the New-Exchange. 1663.
b) POEMES PARUS ISOLEMENT DANS DES RECUEILS DU TEMPS
Un poème latin : De felici partu Reginae Mariae, dans : Zuvwôla, Sive Musarum Cantabrigiensium Concentus et Congratulatio ad Serenissimum Pritannicum Regem Carolum, de quinta sua Sobole, Clarissima Principe, sibi nuper felicissime nato. Ex Academiae Cantabrigiensis Typographeo. Anno Dom. 1637.
Un poème latin : /n felicissimam Reginae Mariae fertilitatem, et un en anglais : Upon the happie birth of the Duke, dans : Voces Votivae ab Academicis Cantabrigiensibus pro novissimo Caroli et Mariae Principe filio Emissae. Cantabrigiae. Apud Rogerum Daniel. 1640.
Un poème latin, commençant : Ergo redis…, et un en anglais : An Ode upon the return of His Majestie, dans : Trenodia Cantabrigiensis : ob paciferum Serinissimi Regis Caroli e Scotia reditum mense Novembri 1641. Ex ofjicina Rogeri Daniel, Almae Acade: miae Typographi. 1641.
Le poème : To Sir William Davenant. Upon his two first Books of Gondibert, finished before his voyage to America, dans : Gondibert : An Heroick Poem; Written by Sir William Davenant. London, 1651. (Chalmers’ English Poets, vol. VI.)
L’ode : Christ’s Passion, taken out of a Greek Ode, written by Mr. Masters of New College in Oxford, dans: D. Henrici Savilit -uxrxpico Oralio, coram Regina Elizabetha Oxoniae habita; aliaeque Doctiss : Virorum Opellae posthumae, ex ipsis Authorum Aulographis desumptae, quarum syllabum sequens pagina Lectori exhibet. Oxoniae, Typis Academiae Lichfieldianis, Anno 1658.
La quatrième « opella » est un poème héroï-comique de Thomas Masters, « Coll. Novi doctiss, non ita pridem Socio », intitulé Mensa Lubrica.
La cinquième est : Ejusdem uovostooeuma els viv tou yptrou sravowsiy Ex autographo Authoris.
La sixième : Eadem latine reddita, Authore Henrico Jacobio
coll. Merton olim socio.
La septième est l’ode de Cowley : Eadem Anglice reddita, Authore (Poetarum hujus Seculi Principe) D. D. Abrahamo Cowley.
L’ode : On Orindæs Poems, dans: Poems. By the Incomparable Mrs. Katherine Philips. London printed by J. G. for Richard Marriott at his shop under S. Dunstans Church in Fleet Street.
La pièce The Garden, en tête de: Kalendarium Hortense : or, the Gard'ners Almanac, directing what he is to do monethly throughout the year. And what fruits and flowers are in prime. The 2d ed., with many useful additions. By John Evelyn, esgq. Fellow of the Royal Society. London, Printed by Jo. Martyn and James Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, and are to be sold at their shops in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1666.
La même pièce, The Garden, dans : Poems upon Divers Occasions. With a character of a London Scrivener. London. Printed for John Crosley, book-seller in Oxford. 1667.
La pièce se trouve à la fin du volume, avec la notice suivante : « This following poem coming by chance to my hands, I took à the double boldness to print it, and affix it here : which will be (I hope) no prejudice to either author. » Elle est signée des initiales : A. C.
L’ode : To the Royal Society, après l’épître dédicatoire, dans : The History of the Royal Society of London, for the improving of Natural Knowledge. By Thomas Sprat. London. Printed by T. R. for J. Martyn at the Bell without Temple-Bar, and J. Aillestry at the Rose and Crown in Duck-Lane, printers to the Royal Society.
La pièce de vers : On the Queens repairing Somerset House a été imprimée en 1664 avec le poème de Waller sur le même sujet, comme le prouve l'inscription suivante dans les registres de la Corporation des Libraires (À Transcript of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, from 1640-1708 A. D. in three volumes. Privately printed (The Roxburghe Club), vol. II) : « Entred for His Copy, under the hands of Mr. l’Estrange and Master Pulleyn, warden, two copies of verses on her Matie ye Queen Mothers new building at Somersett House, by Mr. Edm. Waller and Mr. Abraham Cowley. » Nous n’avons pas trouvé le livre à la bibliothèque du British Museum.
