JB
writes to one male friend (my Adopted Brother) on his approaching marriage, not to congratulate but to dissuade.
Barker, Jane. Poetical Recreations. Benjamin Crayle, 1687.
11
She reflects her intimate knowledge of the work of Katherine Philips
and Abraham Cowley
Textual Features
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Her poetry as a whole is conspicuous for its versatility. Her major early influences (Katherine Philips
and Abraham Cowley
) were succeeded by Dryden
. (She always denied any influence from Pope
.) But...
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Anne Mozley
Wordsworth observed of her poetry anthologies in general that they mixed the contemporary with the canonical: Spenser
, Cowley
. . . stand side by side with Monckton Milnes
and Miss Barrett
.
Wordsworth, John, Bishop of Salisbury, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, 1892, p. xii - xx.
ix
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Katherine Philips
These poems praise the retired life, withdrawn from worldly ambition, in the manner of Cowley
. The contrast which Philips draws between private worth and public corruption belongs both to her public and private statements...
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Katherine Philips
Mention on the title-page of her translations from French emphasizes her interest in French literary and musical culture.
Coolahan, Marie-Louise, and Gillian Wright. “Katherine Philips’s French Translations: Between Mediation and Appropriation”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
23
, No. 4, Nov. 2016, pp. 445-64.
445
In the wake of Marriott's edition, KP
had told Cotterell she had mixed feelings about his...