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Cowley's Pindarique Odes first appeared in his 1656 volume of Poems together with Mistresse, other poems of Miscellanies and Davideis. If we believe Sprat's and Cowley's own account, nothing could have been further from Cowley's mind when he cre ated them than political situation in England and hopes to re vive monarchy with young Prince Charles—the future Charles II. Sprat tells us in his Life of Cowley that occasion of [Cowley's] falling on Pindaric way of Writing, was his accidental meeting with Pindars Works, in a place, where he had other Books to direct him and where having then considered at leisure height of his Invention, and Majesty of his Style, he try'd immediately to imitate it in English.1 Cowley's own Prefaces tell us little more. In translating two odes of Pindar and in imitating Pindar's style and manner in a dozen more, Cowley professes no further intention than to introduce into English the noblest and highest kind of writing in Verse.2 His attention in both his General Preface and in Preface
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