| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1. | Gertrude Savile | Abraham Cowley | The Guardian: A Comedy Acted before Prince Charles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Abraham Cowley | The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am glad that Cowley takes his turn with you. Cowley has great merit with me; and the greater, as he is out of fashi... | Samuel Richardson | Abraham Cowley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am glad that Cowley takes his turn with you. Cowley has great merit with me; and the greater, as he is out of fashi... | Susanna Highmore | Abraham Cowley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This morning we had from the Library the Maid of Arragon, a Tale by Mrs. Cowley, ? & Mrs. Thrale began reading it alo... | Hester Thrale | Hannah Cowley | The Maid of Arragon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | Abraham Cowley | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At night home and supped; and after reading a little in Cowley's poems, my head being disturbed overmuch with busines... | Samuel Pepys | Abraham Cowley | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "amused myself with looking over Cowley's Geometrical Plates - the different Problems of Euclid are drawn upon Pastebo... | Mary Hamilton | John Lodge Cowley | ?[An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Cowley | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who de... | Laetitia Pilkington | Abraham Cowley | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include extract from Cowley's Essay No. 5 ('The Garde... | Edward Morgan Forster | Abraham Cowley | Essay no. 5 ('The Garden') | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "S... | Mr Murphy | Abraham Cowley | Selected Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "S... | Samuel Johnson | Abraham Cowley | Selected Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Abraham Cowley | Life and Fame | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Abraham Cowley | | Print: Book |