id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1446 Abraham Cowley - Wikipedia .html text/html 2784 219 67 Abraham Cowley (/ˈkuːli/;[1] 1618 – 28 July 1667) was an English poet born in the City of London late in 1618. In 1637 Cowley went up to Trinity College, Cambridge,[4] where he "betook himself with enthusiasm to the study of all kinds of learning, and early distinguished himself as a ripe scholar".[3] Portraits of Cowley, attributed to William Faithorne and Stephen Slaughter, are in Trinity College's collection.[5] It was about this time that he composed his scriptural epic on the history of King David, one book of which still exists in the Latin original, the rest being superseded in favour of an English version in four books, called the Davideis, which were published after his death. Frontispice and titlepage to a 1678 edition of the collected works of Abraham Cowley The works of Cowley were collected in 1668, when Thomas Sprat brought out an edition in folio, to which he prefixed a life of the poet. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1446.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1446.txt