IL. — ŒUVRES DE COWLEY PARUES APRES SA MORT
a) EDITIONS D’ENSEMBLE 1) XVII° et XVIIF siècles.
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley. Consisting of those which were formerly Printed : and those which he Design’d for the Press, now Published out of the Authors Original Copies. London. Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman at the Sign of the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange. 1668 (folio).
(C’est l'édition constituée par Sprat, selon le vœu de Cowley. Elle comprend les Poems de 1656, c’est-à-dire les Miscellanies, The Misiress; les Odes pindariques et la Davidéide. S'y ajoutent la traduction en latin du premier livre de la Davidéide, les Verses Written upon severall Occasions, À Proposition for the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy, À Discourse by way of Vision concerning the government of Oliver Cromwell, et les Essais.) ë
Abrahami Couleij Angli, Poemata Latina. In quibus continentur sex Libri Plantarum, viz. duo Herbarum, Florum, Sylvarum. Et unus Miscellaneorum. -—— Habeo quod Carmine sanet et Herbis. Ovid. Met. 10. Londini, Typis T. Roycroft, Impensis Jo. Martyn, apud insigne Campanae extra Locum vulgo dictum Temple-Bar. MDCLXVIII.
(Ceci est la seconde partie de l’œuvre de Cowley, son œuvre latine, également publiée par les soins de Sprat.)
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley…, 1669 1.
Diverses listes d’errata permettent d'affirmer que l’édition de 1668 a été reproduite au moins trois fois. Cf. sur ce point larticle de A. H. Nethercot : The Reputation of Abraham Cowley, dans les Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1923 (vol. XXX VIII, p. 603).
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley.…. the third edition. 1672
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley….… the fourth edition. 1674.
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley.…… the fifth edition... 1678.
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowiey..….. the sixth edition... 1680.
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley.…… the seventh edition. 1681.
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley….. the eighith edition... 1684.
En 1678 avait paru une seconde édition des poèmes latins : Abrahami Couleij Angli, Poemata Latina... Huic editioni secundae accessit
1. Les catalogues trimestriels annonçant les nouveautés et les réimpressions nous apprennent que le prix des Poemata Latina était de 4 shillings, et celui du folio de 14 shillings (The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709, A D.; ..-editéd by Professor Edward Arber, F. S. A. in three volumes. London, 1903 (pri-
vately printed), vol. I, pp. 6, 11).
index rerum antehac desideratus. Londini. Typis M. Clark, Impensis Jo. Martyn, ad Insigne Campanae in Coemeterio D. Pauli. 1678 2. “
En 1688 parut une nouvelle édition non numérotée : The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley…… To this edition are added several commendatory Copies of Verses on the Author, by persons of Honour. Às also a table to the whole Works, never before printed. London. Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman, and sold by Jos. Knight and Fra. Saunders, at the Sign of the Blue Anchor, in the Lower-Walk of the New-Exchange. 1688.
La huitième édition fut augmentée, en 1693, de Cutler of Coleman Streel : The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley……… To this edition are added, Cutter of Coleman Street, and several commendatory copies of Verses on the Author, by persons of Honour, As also a table to the whole Works, never before printed. The eighth edition. London. Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold by R. Bentley, J. Tonson, F. Saunders, and T. Bennet. 1693.
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley…… with the Cutter of Coleman Street. The ninth edition. To which are added, some Verses by the Author, never before printed. London. Printed for Henry Herringman; and are to be sold by Jacob Tonson within Grays- Inn Gate next Grays-Inn Lane, and Thomas Bennet at the Half- Moon in St. Paul’s Churchyard. 1700.
A cette série d'éditions sortie des presses de Herringman s'était ajoutée, à partir de 1681, une seconde série, éditée par Charies Harper, comprenant le reste des œuvres de Cowley, soit les Poeticall Blossomes, Love’s Riddle, Naufragium Joculare : The Second Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley. Being what was wrillen and published by himself in his younger years, and now reprinted together. The fourth edition. London. Printed by Mary Clark for Charles Harper, at the Flower de Luce in Fleet Street, and Jacob Tonson, at the Judges-Head in Chancery Lane, near Fleet Street. 1681.
(Notons, pour expliquer ce « fourth edition », que les Poeticall Blossomes avaient connu trois éditions.)
Une cinquième édition paraît avec l’édition Herringman de 1684, mais reste numérotée : The fourth edition.
Une troisième partie s’ajoute bientôt aux deux premières : The second and third Parts of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley. The second containing what was written and published by himself in his younger years, and now reprinted together. The sixth edition. The third containing his six Books of Plants : viz : the
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2. Cette seconde édition fut mise en vente à 3 shillings 6 pence (The Term Catalogues…., I, p. 336).
2 first and second of Herbs, the third and fourth of Flowers, the À fifth and sixth of Trees. Now made Engiish by several Hands. With necessary tables to both Parts, and several Poems in praise of the Author. London. Printed for Charles Harper, at the Flower de Luce over against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet Street. 1689.
The second and third Parts... parurent à nouveau à la suite de l’édition de 1700, avec le même titre, et aussi un second titre, ainsi conçu : The second Part... London. Printed by Mary Clark for
. Charles Harper at the Flower de Luce in Fleet Street. 1689. The third Part... With a necessary index, the second edition... 1700 3.
Jacob Tonson, prenant la succession de Herringman, continua d’éditer les œuvres de Cowley, mais en remplaçant l’in-folio par linoctavo : The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley : in two volumes. Consisting of those which were formerly Printed; and those which he Design'd for the Press, publish’'d out of the Author's Original Copies. With the Cutter of Coleman Street. The tenth edition. Adorn'd with Cuts. London. Printed for Jacob Tonson within Grays-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn Lane. 1707.
The third and last volume of the Works of Mr. Abraham Couwley : being the second and third Parts thereof, Adorn’d with Proper and Elegant Cuts. Part 11. What was written and publish’'d by Himself; now reprinled together. The eighth edition. Part III. His six Books of Plants, the First and Second of Herbs. The Third and Fourth of Flowers. The Fifth and Sixth of Trees. Made English buy several celebrated Hands. With necessary Tables and Divers Poems of eminent Persons, in Praise of the Author : with the Author’s Life, and other considerable Additions and Improvements. London. Printed for Charles Harper at the Flower de Luce, over against Sf. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet Street. 1707.
The Works of Mr, Abraham Cowley…… the eleventh edition. 1710. The third and last Volume... the ninth edition...
The Works of Abraham Cowley. In three volumes. Volumes I and II containing his poems and other pieces publish’ d by the late Lord Bp of Rochester; with some Account of his Life and Writings. Volume III containing his Poems, plays, etc. publish’d in his younger years : with a translation of his six Books of Plants. London. Printed for B. Tooke, J. Tonson, G. Straham, W, Taylor, W. Mears, W. Chetwood, and T. Jauney. 1721.
(Ces volumes sont en in-douze. Un second titre les annonce
3. Il existe au British Museum un exemplaire détaché du Naufragium Joculare, publié en 1700. Maïs il paraît, d’après la pagination, que c’est un fragment détaché de l’édition de 1700, et non une édition séparée.
respectivement comme: The Works the twelfth edition. Part 11. the tenth edition. Part III... the fifth edition.)
2) XIX° siècle.
The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Abraham Cowley. Now for the First Time collected and edited : with Memorial-Introduction and Notes, and Illustrations, Portraits, etc.., in two volumes. By Alexander B. Grosart. Edinburgh. 1881. (The Chertsey Worthies’ Library.)
The English Writings of Abraham Cowley. Edited by A. R. Waller. Cambridge, 1905-6 (Cambridge English Classics.)
Volume I: Abraham Cowley. Poems : Miscellanies, The Mistress, Pindarique Odes, Davideis, Verses written on several Occasions. The text edited by A. R. Waller, M. A. Cambridge : at the University Press. 1905.
Volume II : Abraham Cowley. Essays, Plays, and Sundry Verses. The text edited by A. R. Waller, M. A. Cambridge : at the University Press. 1906.
b) ŒUVRES ISOLEES ET MORCEAUX CHOISIS
À Poem on the late Civil War. By Mr. Abraham Cowley. London, Printed. 1679 4.
The Puritar and the Papist, dans : Wit and Loyalty reviv'd, in a Collection of some smart Satyrs in Verse and Prose on the Late me mes. By Mr. Abraham Cowley, Sir J. Birkenhead, and the ingenious Author of Hudibras, etc. London. Printed for W. Davis.
À Translation of the sixth Book of Mr. Cowley’s Plantarum. Being a Poem upon the late Rebellion, the happy Restoration of His Sacred Majesty and the Dutch war ensuing. London. 1680.
(Ce pamphlet est une paraphrase du sixième livre du Planlarum.)
An Heroick Poem upon the late Horrid Rebellion, His Maties Happy Restoration : and the magnanimity and valour of his Royal Highness James Duke of York in the late Dutch War. Wherein He exposed His Royal Person to the greatest Dangers, for the Safety and fnterest of this Nation. London. 1683.
(Ce pamphlet est une réimpression du précédent.)
4. Les Term Catalogues pour « Michaelmas Term 1679 » précisent : À Poem on the late Civil War. By Mr. Abraham Cowley, in-quarto, price 64. Printed
for L. Curtis in Goat Court on Ludgate Hill (The Term Catalogues, 1 p. 359).
ss EME NET AIS REMREATEML SE
The Definition of a Tyrant, by the learned and loyal Abraham Cowley (published by the present Lord Bp of Rochester) in his Discourse concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell, dans : À fifth Collection of Papers relating to the present He of Affairs in England. London. 1688.
(Cette définition comprend la partie du Discourse qui va de : < I call him a Tyrant, who. » à : « those Laws which were his Superiors. »
Les « Sortes Virgilianae » que Cowley traduisit à Oxford, dans : Miscellany. Poems upon Several Occusions, consisting of Original Poems by the late duke of Buckingham, Mr. Cowley, Mr. Milton, Mr. Prior, Mrs. Behn, Mr. Tho. Brown, etc. and the translations from Horace; Persius, Petronius Arbiter, etc. with an Essay upon Satyr, by the famous M. Dacier. London. 1692. (Charles Gildon.)
Letters by the famous Mr. Abraham Cowley (then Secretary Lo my Lord Jermyn) during King Charles the Second's Exile; written from Paris to Mr. Henry Bennet, afterwards Earl of Arlington, dans : Miscellanea Aulica; or, a Collection of State Treatises, never before publish’à… Faithfully collected from their originals by Mr. T. Brown. London. 1702.
Verses written by Mr. Cowley soon after the death of Cromwell, dans : À true and faithful Narrative of Oliver Cromwell s Compact with the Devil for seven years, on the day in which he gained the battle at Worcester and on which day, at the expiration of the said terme, he afterwards died, as it was relaled by Colonel Lindsey, who was an eye-witness of that diabolical Conference, related in Mr. Archdeacon Eachard’s History of England... the second edition. London. 1720.
(Après ce pamphlet, viennent le portrait de Cromwell par Lord Clarendon, et huit strophes extraites du Discours de Cowley.)
Lettre de Cowley à Sprat, du 21 mai 1665 : Mr. Abraham Cowley to Dr. Thomas Sprat (afterwards Lord Bp of Rochester) giving an account of his condition in his retirement at Chertsey in Surrey. 21 May 1665. Communicated by William Cowper, Esq.; clerk of the Parliaments, dans : À Collection of divers curious historical pieces relating to Cromwell and a great number of other remarkable persons (after the manner of Desiderata Curiosa, vol. Ï and Ii), by Francis Peck, M. A. London. 1740.
(Sorte d’appendice aux Memoirs of the Life and Actions of Oliver Cromwell...)
Select Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley; in two volumes. With a Preface and Notes by the Editor (Richard Hurd). London. 1772.
Cowley’s History of Plants, a Poem in six Books. With Rapin's Dispo-
sition of Gardens, a Poem in four Books; translated from the Latin; the former by Nahum Tate and others; the latter by James Gardiner. London. Printed and sold by J. Smeeton, n° 148 St. Martin’s Lane, Charing Cross. 1795.
The Works of Abraham Cowley, with a Preface, biographical and critical, by Samuel Johnson, L. L. D., reedited, with new biographical and critical matter, by J. Aikin, M. D. London. 1806.
The Puritan and the Papist, dans : À Collection of scarce and valuable Tracts, on the most interesting and entertaining subjects : but chiefly such as relate to the history and constitution of the Kingdoms. Selected from an infinite number in print and ms, in the Royal, Cotton, Sion, and other public, as well as privale, libraries; particularly that of the late Lord Somers. The second edition, revised, augmented, arranged, by Walter Scott, Esq. London. 1811.
Prose Works of Abraham Cowley, Esq. Including his Essays in Verse and Prose. London. 1826.
Essays. By Abraham Cowley. With an Introduction by H. Morley. London. 1886. (Cassells National Library.)
Cowley’s Prose Works. With Introduction and Notes, by J. Rawson Lumby, D. D. Cambridge, at the University Press. 1887.
Lettres échangées entre Cowley et le marquis d'Ormonde en 1659-1660, dans un article de C. H. Firth : Abraham Cowley at the Restoration. (The Academy, October 7 1893, vol. XLIV.)
Poems selected from the Writings of Mr. Abraham Cowley. The Astolat Press Guildford. 1902. (A. C. Curtis.)
Poems of Abraham Cowley. Selected and edited by Katherine B. Locock. London. 1903.
Several Discourses by way of Essays in Verse and Prose, by Abraham Cowley. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Henry Christopher Minchin. With a portrait from a painting by Sir Peter Lely. London. 1904.
Cowley’s Essays. London. 1907 (Blackie’s English Texts, edited by W. H. D. Rouse. Edition populaire.)
Essays and Selected Verse of Abraham Cowley. With an Introduction by J. M. Attenborough. (1915).
Abraham Cowley. The Essays and other Prose Wrütings. Edited by Alfred B. Gough. Oxford. At the Clarendon Press. 1915.
Cowley’s Essays (Edited by J. Rawson Lumby, revised by A. Tilley. Cambridge. 1923.)
The Mistress. With other select Poems of Abraham Cowley. 1618-1667. Edited by John Sparrow. London. 1926. (The Nonesuch Press.)
c) POEMES MIS EN MUSIQUE
Poems of Mr. Cowley and others. Composed into songs and Ayres with a thorough-bass to the theorbo, harpsecon, or basse-violl; by William King organist of New Colledge in the University of Oxon. Oxford. Imprinted by William Hall for the author. 1668.
(Sur 24 « songs », 16 sont tirées de Cowley, toutes de The Mistress, à l'exception de l’ode de David à Michol.)
The Musical Companion, containing catches and rounds for three and four voyces, collected and published by John Playford, Practitioner in Musick, London. 1667.
(L’anacréontique Drinking. Elle figure aussi dans l'édition de 1672.)
Choice Songs and Ayres for one voyce. To sing to a theorbo-lute, or bass-viol, being most of the newest songs sung at Court, and at the publick theatres. Composed by several gentlemen of his Majesties Musick. The first Book. London. John Playford.… 1673.
(La première strophe de l’ode Sitting and Drinking in the Chair made out of the Reliques of Sir Francis Drake's Ship.)
Choice Ayres, Songs, and Dialogues. the second edition corrected and enlarged. London. John Playford.…. 1675.
(La même pièce. Dans le troisième livre (1681), l’ode de David à Michol. — Dans le quatrième (1683), Honour..)
Songs for one, two, and three, Voices to the Thorow-Bass; With some short symphonies. Collected out of sonte of the Select Poems of the Incomparable Mr. Cowley, and others; and composed by H. Bowman, Philo-Musicus. 1678.
(Deux anacréontiques : The Epicure (2), et Love; la première strophe de Chrisf’s Passion, l'ode à Michol, les Sorles Virgilianae.)
Songs set bu Signior Pietro Reggio (1680) 5.
(Cowley a la place d'honneur dans le recueil. Les morceaux sont choisis dans les Anacréontiques et The Mistress, les deux parties ne réunissant pas moins de trente-trois < songs ».)
The Theatre of Musick, or a choice collection of the newest and best Songs sung at the Court and public theaters. The words composed by the most ingenious wits of the Age, and set lo music by the greatest Masters in that Science. London, Printed by J. Playford for H. Playford. 1685.
(Livre I, Acme and Septimius; livre I, The Rick Rival; livre IV (1687), Love, Age, The Epicure, To a Lady who made Posies for Rings.)
5. Dans l’exemplaire du British Museum la page portant le titre complet a été arrachée.
The Banquet of Musick: or, a collection of the newest and best Songs... London. for H. Playford. 1688.
(Livre I, Here’s to thee, Dick; livre VI (1692), The Epiçure (2). Harmonia Sacra; or, divine Hymns and Dialogues. London. H. Playford. 1688. (The 34 chapter of Isaiah.) (Edition de 1703 : livre I, la strophe I de Chrisls Passion, et livre II, The Resurrection.) Orpheus Britannicus. À collection of all the choicest Songs for one, two, and three voices. Compos’d by H. Purcell. London. H. Playford. 1698.
(Here’s lo thee, Dick; The Thraldom; Honour. Livre II (1702), The Epicure.)
d) PIECES FAUSSEMENT ATTRIBUEES A COWLEY
Des éditeurs et des auteurs peu scrupuleux ont offert au public, à diverses reprises, sous le nom de Cowley, des œuvres qu’il n'avait pas écriles.
À Satyre against Separatists, or, the Conviction of Chamber-preachers, and other Schismatickes contrary to the discipline of this our protestant profession. By A. C. Generosus. London. Printed for A. C. 1642.
The Foure Ages of England : or, the Iron Age. With other select poems. Written by Mr. A. Cowley. — Cantabit vacuus….
Lectori.
Qui legis ista, tuam reprehendo, si mea laudas, Omnia, stultitiam; si nihil, invidiam.
Owen. Ep. pag. 1. — Printed in the yeere. 1648.
(Cowley, dans la préface de son volume de 1656, a expressément protesté contre la publication de ce pamphlet sous son nom.)
The familiar Letters of Cowley, with notices of his Life, and Sketches of some of his friends and contemporaries. Now first printed. Dans : The Frazer’s Magazine for Town and Country. April 1836, August 1836.
(Ces lettres ne sont aucunement de Cowley. Elles sont fabriquées de toutes pièces, à l’aide de faits connus de la vie du poète, et d’allusions à des événements contemporains. Grosart, dans The Athenaeum du 17 juillet 1897, a prouvé la supercherie.)
e) PASTICHES DE COWLEY
Une pseudo-lettre de Cowley « to the Covent-Garden Society », demandant une trêve à la guerre des beaux-esprits. Dans : Letters
from the Dead to the Living, by Mr. Thomas Brown, Captain Ayloffe, Mr. Henry Barker, etc. London. 1702.
Un dialogue : On Retirement. Between Mr. Abraham Cowley and the Rev. Mr. Thomas Sprat; related in a letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Si. Albans. Dans : Moral and Political Dialogues. Being the substance of several conversations between divers eminent persons of the past and present Ages: digested by the parties themselves, and now first published from the original Mss, with critical and explanatory notes by the editor. London. 1759. (Richard Hurd.)
A Conversation between Mr. Abraham Cowley and Mr. John Milton touching the great Civil War. Set down by a gentleman of the Middle Temple: August. 1824. Dans : The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay. In two volumes. London. 1860.
