I. — OUVRAGES D'ORDRE BIOGRAPHIQUE ET CARACTERISTIQUES GENERALES

SPRAT (Thomas). — An Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. Abraham Cowley, written to Mr. M. Clifford. 1668.

SPRAT (Thomas). — De Vita et Scriptis Abrahami Couleii… 1668.

(Ces deux études forment, encore aujourd’hui, la base de toute critique de Cowley.)

Ezys (Edmund). — An Exclamation to all those that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity, against an Apology written by an ingenious person, for Mr. Cowley’s lascivious and prophane Verses. By a dutiful son of the Church of England. London. 1670.

Puiccirs (Edward). Theatrum Poetarum; or a compleat Collection of the Poets, especially the most eminent of all Ages; the Ancients distinguish’t from the Moderns in their several alphabets. With some observations and reflections upon many of them, particularly those of our own Nation. Together with a prefatory Discourse of the Poeits and Poeiry in generall. London. 1675. (Part II, pp. 1-2.)

HEarx (James). — A Chronicle of the late intestine War in the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. With the intervening afjairs of treaties, and other occurrences, relating therunto. As also the several usurpations, forreign wars, differences, and interests depending upon it, to the happy Restitution of our Sacred Soveraign King Charles 11. In four parts. The second edition, to which is added a continuation to this present year 1675... London. 1676 (p. 564) (1'° éd., 1663.)

LLioyD (David). — Memoirs of the Lives, actions, sufferings, and deaths, of those noble, reverend, and excellent personages, that suffered death, sequestration, decimation, or otherwise, for the Protestant Religion, and the great Principle thereof, allegiance to their Soveraign, in our late intestine wars, from the year 1637 to the

6. Nous avons cité dans les notes les ouvrages et les documents sur lesquels notre travail s’appuie. Nous nous bornons à dresser ici la liste des livres et des articles contenant des renseignements ou des jugements sur Cowiey.