The popularity of the _Astrophel and Stella_ (there were three editions in the first year in which it was printed--1591), as well as the example it set, help to account for the profuse production of sonnet cycles in the next few years. The following list, which does not profess to be exhaustive, of the collections published before 1595, will show the wealth of Elizabethan literature in this form: The _Parthenophil and Parthenophe_ of Barnabe Barnes (which owes its survival to the accident which has preserved a single copy at Chatsworth, reprinted by Dr Grosart), the _Licia_ of Giles Fletcher, and the _Phillis_ of Thomas Lodge, were published before the end of 1593. In 1594 appeared the _Cœlia_ of William Percy, Constable’s _Diana_, Daniel’s _Delia_, and Drayton’s _Idea_. To these may be added the names of Willoughby’s _Avisa_, which, however, does not consist of sonnets, and the anonymous _Zepheria_. Spenser’s _Amoretti_, or love sonnets, belong in date of publication to 1595. Three other collections--the _Fidessa_ of Griffin, Lynch’s _Diella_ (thirty-eight sonnets, prefixed to the amorous poem of _Diego and Genevra_), and the _Chloris_ of W. Smith, belong to 1596. The sonnet, too, was written by others who did not construct cycles. Every reader of _The Faërie Queen_ knows the splendid “Me thought I saw the grave where Laura lay,” by Sir W. Raleigh, and its less legitimately built successor, “The praise of meaner wits,” which was addressed less to Spenser’s masterpiece than to the vanity of Queen Elizabeth. During many long fallow years of silence the poetic genius of the English race had been accumulating, and it wanted but a touch to set it free. Even among the poets named here who are not otherwise famous, there was some measure of original power. Putting aside Spenser, who towers over all, the finest lyric force was in Lodge, and the most uniform accomplishment in Daniel. It was left to Shakespeare to give the greatest of English sonnets, but the form he preferred--the three rhymed quatrains and the couplet--had been polished and established as the prevalent English type by Daniel.[64] [SN: _Other lyric poetry._]