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=Cooper, Anthony Ashley.= 3d Earl of Shaftesbury. 1671-1713. Ethical writer. Author of Characteristics of Men, etc.
=Copleston [kop'[e^]l-st[o^]n], Edward.= 1776-1849. Bp. Llandaff.
Theological writer.
=Corbet, Richard.= 1562-1635. Bp. Norwich. Poet of indifferent merit.
=Cornwall, Barry=. See Procter, B. W.
=Coryat, Thomas.= 1577-1617. Writer of travels. Best known by Coryat's Crudities, entertaining, but full of affectations.
=Costello, Dudley.= 1803-1865. Novelist. Author Stories from a Screen, Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady, The Millionaire, etc.
=Costello, Louisa Stuart.= 1815-1870. Novelist and writer of travels.
Sister to D. C. Author of The Queen Mother, the Rose Garden of Persia, etc.
=Cottle, Joseph.= 1770-1853. Poet. Best known, however, by his Reminiscences of Coleridge and Southey.
=Cotton, Charles.= 1630-1687. Poet and translator of Montaigne.
=Cotton, Nathaniel.= 1721-1788. Poet. Author Visions in Verse, Miscellanies.
=Cotton, Sir Robert.= 1570-1631. Antiquary and historical collector.
=Coverdale, Miles.= 1487-1568. Bp. Exeter. Translator, with Tyndale, of the Bible. The first translation of the whole Bible was by C., and appeared in 1635.
=Cowley, Abraham.= 1618-1667. Poet and essayist. His popularity, once great, is now slight. His verse is ingenious, but contains little poetic feeling. His most pretentious poem is The Davideis. _See Aikin's edition, 3 vols., 1802._
=Cowper [koo'per or kow'per], Wm.= 1731-1800. Poet. His verse is mainly religious or didactic, but his humorous ballad of John Gilpin is widely famous. He was the author of many beautiful and well-known hymns, of a long poem, The Task, and the exquisite Lines on My Mother's Picture. Style quiet and meditative. _The best edition of C.
is that by Southey, with biography, 1838._ _See Cowper, by Goldwin Smith, in Eng. Men of Letters._
=c.o.x, Sir George W.= 182 Historian. Author Hist. of Greece, Mythology of the Aryan Nations, Tales of Ancient Greece, etc. _Pub.
Apl. Har. Ho._
=c.o.xe, Wm.= 1744-1828. Historian. Author Hist. House of Austria, Kings of Spain, Memoirs of Duke of Marlborough, etc. A standard writer.
_Pub. Apl._
=Crabbe, George.= 1754-1832. Poet. Writer of realistic, matter-of-fact narrative poems: The Village, The Parish Register, etc. _See complete edition of 1834, 8 vols., with Life._ _See Atlantic Monthly, May, 1880, ”A Neglected Poet.”_
=Crabbe, George.= 1778-1834. Philologist. Author of Hist. Eng. Law and a noted work on Eng. Synonyms. _Pub. Har._
=Craig-Knox, Mrs. Isa.= 183 Scotch poet. Author Ode to Burns, d.u.c.h.ess Agnes, etc. _Pub. Cas._
=Craik, Mrs. Dinah Maria Mulock.= 182 Novelist and poet. Author of quiet, helpful, earnest stories, among which John Halifax, Gentleman, is the most noted. Others are, A Brave Lady, A n.o.ble Life, A Woman's Kingdom, Mistress and Maid, etc. Philip My King and Douglas are two of her finest poems. _Pub. Har. Hou. Mac._
=Craik, George Lillie.= 1799-1866. Historian. Author of a valuable Hist. Eng. Lit., The English of Shakespeare, Bacon and his Philosophy, etc. _See Rolfe's Craik's English of Shakespeare._ _Pub. Scr._
=Cranmer, Thos.= 1489-1555. Abp. Canterbury. Theologian. _See Archdeacon Todd's Life of, 1831._
=Crashaw [cr[)a]sh'aw], Richard.= c. 1620-1650. Poet. Author of Steps to the Temple, etc. His verse is fanciful and mystical, but always melodious. _See Turnbull's complete edition of London, 1858._ _See G.
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