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In 1637 Cowley was elected into Trinity College, Cambridge, where he betook himself with enthusiasm to the study of all kinds of learning, and early distinguished himself as a ripe scholar.
Cowley's pamphlet on The Advancement of Experimental Philosophy, 1661, led directly to the foundation of the Royal Society, to which body Cowley, in March 1667, at the suggestion of Evelyn, addressed an ode which is the latest and one of the strongest of his poems.
On August 3, Cowley was buried in Westminster Abbey beside the ashes of Chaucer and Spenser, where in 1675 the duke of Buckingham erected a monument to his memory.
Hannah Cowley was born Hannah Parkhouse in Tiverton in 1743.
Cowley’s father had already sought the influence of the local patron Lord Harrowby, hoping to gain an official pension acknowledging the literary achievements of his daughter; instead Harrowby arranged the promotion of her husband from the Stamp Office to a more profitable appointment in the East India Company.
Cowley’s involvement in English Della Cruscanism gained her much notoriety and little critical acclaim at the time, and it is only recently that literary historians such as Jerome McGann, Judith Pascoe and Jacqueline M. Labbe have attempted to rescue the movement from Gifford’s scorn and establish its influence on Romanticism.
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