Minor Poems of Michael Drayton

Name: Minor Poems of Michael Drayton
Author: Drayton, Michael

Drayton, Michael

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700

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MINOR POEMS
OF
MICHAEL DRAYTON

CHOSEN AND EDITED BY
CYRIL BRETT

OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1907

Henry Frowde, M.A.
Publisher to the University of Oxford
London, Edinburgh, New York
and Toronto

CONTENTS

                                              PAGE

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE                             iv

INTRODUCTION                                     v

SONNETS (1594)                                   1

SONNETS (1599)                                  28

SONNETS (1602)                                  42

SONNETS (1605)                                  47

SONNETS (1619)                                  51

ODES (1619)                                     56

ODES (1606)                                     85

ELEGIES (1627)                                  88

NIMPHIDIA (1627)                               124

THE QUEST OF CYNTHIA                           144

THE SHEPARDS SIRENA                            151

THE MUSES ELIZIUM (1630)                       161

SONGS FROM THE SHEPHERD'S GARLAND (1593)       231

SONGS FROM THE SHEPHERD'S GARLAND (1605)       240

SONGS FROM THE SHEPHERD'S GARLAND (1606)       242

APPENDIX                                       248

NOTES                                          257

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF DRAYTON'S LIFE AND WORKS

1563       Drayton born at Hartshill, Warwickshire.

1572?      Drayton a page in the house of Sir Henry Goodere, at
                  Polesworth.

c. 1574    Anne Goodere born?

Feb. 1591  Drayton in London. _Harmony of Church_.

1593       _Idea, the Shepherd's Garland_. _Legend of Peirs Gaveston_.

1594       _Ideas Mirrour_. _Matilda_. Lucy Harrington becomes Countess
                  of Bedford.

1595       Sir Henry Goodere the elder dies. _Endimion and Phoebe_,
                  dedicated to Lucy Bedford.

1595-6     Anne Goodere married to Sir Henry Rainsford.

1596       _Mortimeriados_. _Legends of Robert, Matilda, and Gaveston_.

1597       _England's Heroical Epistles_.

1598       Drayton already at work on the _Polyolbion_.

1599       _Epistles_ and _Idea_ sonnets, new edition. (Date of Portrait
                  of Drayton in National Portrait Gallery.)

1600       _Sir John Oldcastle_.

1602       New edition of _Epistles_ and _Idea_.

1603       Drayton made an Esquire of the Bath, to Sir Walter Aston.
                  _To the Maiestie of King James_. _Barons' Wars_.

1604       _The Owle_. _A Pean Triumphall_. _Moyses in a Map of his
                  Miracles_.

1605       First collected edition of _Poems_. Another edition of
                  _Idea_ and _Epistles_.

1606       _Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall_. _Odes_. _Eglogs_.
                  _The Man in the Moone_.

1607       _Legend of Great Cromwell_.

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Minor Poems of Michael Drayton

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