of Coleman Street (performed 1661; published 1663) A Satyre Against Separatists (1642), also known as The Puritans Lecture A Satire: The Puritan and the Papist (1643) The Mistress; or, Several Copies of Love-Verses (1647) Poems (1656), includes Miscellanies, Anacreontiques, Davideis and Pindarique Odes A Proposition for the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy (1661) Plantarum libri duo (1662) Verses Lately Written Upon Several Occasions (1663) Ode to the Royal Society (1667) Works (1668), "Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed: and, Those which he Design'd for the Press", includes Essays and Plantarum libri sex Works (1681), with a second part, "Being what was Written and Published by himself in his Younger Years" Works (1689), with a third part, "Being His Six Books of Plants, Never before Printed in English" Later compilations The Complete Works in Verse and Prose, ed. Alexander B. Grosart (1881) Cowley's Essays, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell, 1886) Prose Works, ed. J. R. Lumby (1887) English Writings, ed. A. R. Waller, in two volumes (Cambridge, 1905–06) The Mistress with Other Select Poems, ed. John Sparrow (Nonesuch, 1926) The Crypto-Mistress: Love Poems (Golden Eagle Press, 1948) Poetry and Prose, ed. L. C. Martin (Oxford, 1949) The Collected Works, Volume 1, ed. Thomas O. Calhoun and Laurence Heyworth (University of Delaware Press, 1989) The Collected Works, Volume 2, Part 1, ed. Thomas O. Calhoun, Laurence Heyworth and J. Robert King (University of Delaware Press, 1993) Selected Poems, ed. David Hopkins and Tom Mason (Carcanet, 1994) Love Poems, ed. Anthony Astbury (Greville Press, 1995) References Sources External links Essays by Abraham Cowley at Quotidiana.org Works of Abraham Cowley at Archive.org (pdf download) Samuel Johnson elevates Cowley for "easy poetry" 1618 births 1667 deaths English essayists Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge People from the City of London People educated at Westminster School, London Burials at Westminster Abbey 17th-century English poets 17th-century English male writers 17th-century English writers Male essayists English male poets 17th-century Latin-language writers New Latin-language poets Translation theorists