1754
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Abraham Cowley
Thomas Francklin, in Translation, a Poem (1754); Poetical Register for 1806-07 (1811) 322.
Commentary for
Abraham Cowley:
1658: Anonymous
1662 ca.: Katherine Philips
1667: Sir John Denham
1667 ca.: Roger Boyle
1670: Richard Flecknoe
1674: Thomas Rymer
1682: John Sheffield
1683: John Dryden
1687: Philip Ayres
1688: Anonymous
1693: Rev. Samuel Wesley
1694: Joseph Addison
1697: John Dryden
1697: Daniel Baker
1700: Samuel Cobb
1712: Bezaleel Morrice
1712: Leonard Welsted
1720: Giles Jacob
1721: Judith Cowper Madan
1722: T. B.
1726: Aaron Hill
1728: James Ralph
1737: Alexander Pope
1738: Anonymous
1754: Thomas Francklin
1757: Rev. John Free
1757: Bp. Richard Hurd
1763: Rev. William Thompson
1764: David Erskine Baker
1769: Daniel Hayes
1772: Bp. Richard Hurd
1776: James Beattie
1776: John Nichols
1782: William Hayley
1782: Rev. Joseph Warton
1789: William Belsham
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1795 ca.: Bp. Richard Hurd
1797: Charles Lamb
1802: George Dyer
1802: Joseph Dennie
1802: B. T.
1803: George Dyer
1806: Dr. John Aikin
1809: Anonymous
1817: John Taylor Esq.
1819: Thomas Campbell
1819: William Hazlitt
1824: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1825 ca.: Henry Mackenzie
1826: Richard Ryan
1834: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1836: Hartley Coleridge
1836: Richard Cattermole
1837: William Howitt
1837: Henry Hallam
1842: C. H. Timperley
1852: Mary Russell Mitford
1860: George Gilfillan
1880: Thomas Humphry Ward
1882: Epes Sargent
Commentary by
Thomas Francklin:
1754: Abraham Cowley
1754: William Melmoth
1754: Rev. Joseph Trapp
1754: Leonard Welsted
In the fair field the vet'ran armies stand,
A firm, unconquer'd, formidable band,
When lo! Translation comes and levels all;
By vulgar hands the bravest heroes fall.
On eagle's wings see lofty Pindar soar;
Cowley attacks, and Pindar is no more.