1608 Reprint of Collected Poems. 1609 Another edition of _Cromwell_. 1610 Reprint of Collected Poems. 1613 Reprint of Collected Poems. First Part of _Polyolbion_. 1618 Two _Elegies_ in FitzGeoffrey's _Satyrs and Epigrames_. 1619 Collected Folio edition of Poems. 1620 Second edition of _Elegies_, and reprint of 1619 Poems. 1622 _Polyolbion_ complete. 1627 _Battle of Agincourt_, _Nymphidia_, &c. 1630 _Muses Elizium_. _Noah's Floud_. _Moses his Birth and Miracles_. _David and Goliah_. 1631 Second edition of 1627 folio. Drayton dies towards the end of the year. 1636 Posthumous poem appeared in _Annalia Dubrensia_. 1637 _Poems_. INTRODUCTION Michael Drayton was born in 1563, at Hartshill, near Atherstone, in Warwickshire, where a cottage, said to have been his, is still shown. He early became a page to Sir Henry Goodere, at Polesworth Hall: his own words give the best picture of his early years here.[1] His education would seem to have been good, but ordinary; and it is very doubtful if he ever went to a university.[2] Besides the authors mentioned in the Epistle to Henry Reynolds, he was certainly familiar with Ovid and Horace, and possibly with Catullus: while there seems no reason to doubt that he read Greek, though it is quite true that his references to Greek authors do not prove any first-hand acquaintance. He understood French, and read Rabelais and the French sonneteers, and he seems to have been acquainted with Italian.[3] His knowledge of English literature was wide, and his judgement good: but his chief bent lay towards the history, legendary and otherwise, of his native country, and his vast stores of learning on this subject bore fruit in the _Polyolbion_.