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Cowley

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Cow·ley  (koul), Abraham 1618-1667.
English metaphysical poet whose works include Davideis (1656), an epic on the life of King David.
Cowley [ˈkaʊlɪ]
n
(Biographies / Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) M, English, WRITING: poet, WRITING: essayist) Abraham. 1618-67, English poet and essayist, who introduced the Pindaric ode to English literature
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FROM HIS SEAT on a box in the rough board shed that stuck like a burr on the rear of Cowley & Son's store in Winesburg, Elmer Cowley, the junior member of the firm, could see through a dirty window into the printshop of the Winesburg Eagle.
Winesberg, Ohio by Anderson, Sherwood View in context
No general error evinces a more thorough confusion of ideas than the error of supposing Donne and Cowley metaphysical in the sense wherein Wordsworth and Coleridge are so.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
These lines of Cowley were new to me, but the sentiment was not new, and I marvelled how the old tailor could see through me so well.
Margaret Ogilvy by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
 
 
 
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