Michael Drayton

Collected Poetical Works

Michael Drayton was born in 1563 at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. The facts of his early life remain unknown. Drayton first published, in 1590, a volume of spiritual poems; The Harmony of the Church. Ironically the Archbishop of Canterbury seized almost the entire edition and had it destroyed. In 1593 he published Idea: The Shepherd's Garland, 9 pastorals celebrating his own love-sorrows under the poetic name of Rowland. This was later expanded to a 64 sonnet cycle. With the publication of The Legend of Piers Gaveston, Matilda and Mortimeriados, later enlarged and re-published, in 1603, under the title of The Barons' Wars. His career began to gather interest and attention. In 1596, The Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandy, another historical poem was published, followed in 1597 by England's Heroical Epistles, a series of historical studies, in imitation of those of Ovid. Written in the heroic couplet, they contain some of his finest writing. Like other poets of his era, Drayton wrote for the theatre; but unlike Shakespeare, Jonson, or Samuel Daniel, he invested little of his art in the genre. Between 1597 and 1602, Drayton was a member of the stable of playwrights who worked for Philip Henslowe. Henslowe's Diary links Drayton's name with 23 plays from that period, and, for all but one unfinished work, in collaboration with others such as Thomas Dekker, Anthony Munday, and Henry Chettle. Only one play has survived; Part 1 of Sir John Oldcastle, which Drayton wrote with Munday, Robert Wilson, and Richard Hathwaye but little of Drayton can be seen in its pages. By this time, as a poet, Drayton was well received and admired at the Court of Elizabeth 1st. If he hoped to continue that admiration with the accession of James 1st he thought wrong. In 1603, he addressed a poem of compliment to James I, but it was ridiculed, and his services rudely rejected. In 1605 Drayton reprinted his most important works; the historical poems and the Idea. Also published was a fantastic satire called The Man in the Moon and, for the for the first time the famous Ballad of Agincourt. Since 1598 he had worked on Poly-Olbion, a work to celebrate all the points of topographical or antiquarian interest in Great Britain. Eighteen books in total, the first were published in 1614 and the last in 1622. In 1627 he published another of his miscellaneous volumes. In it Drayton printed The Battle of Agincourt (an historical poem but not to be confused with his ballad on the same subject), The Miseries of Queen Margaret, and the acclaimed Nimphidia, the Court of Faery, as well as several other important pieces. Drayton last published in 1630 with The Muses' Elizium. Michael Drayton died in London on December 23rd, 1631. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, in Poets' Corner. A monument was placed there with memorial lines attributed to Ben Jonson.

The Nineteenth Song to the Thirtieth Song

Michael Drayton - Poly-Olbion - Part II

The Complete Works of Michael Drayton: Polyolbion and The harmony of the church

A Chorographicall Description of Great Britain

The Poly-Olbion

Idea. The Shepheard's Garland

The Works of Michael Drayton

The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected

Poly-olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Rivers, Mountaines, Forests, and other Parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine, With intermixture of the most Remarquable Stories, Antiquities, Rarityes, Pleasures, and Commodities of the same: Digested in a Poem by Michael Drayton Esq. With a Table added, etc. [With the “Illustrations” of John Selden.]

The Complete Works of Michael Drayton: Polyolbion

Poems

The complete works of Michael Drayton. With intr. and notes by R. Hooper

Anthony Munday

William Shakespeare

Robert Wilson

Richard Hathway

The History of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham

The Battaile of Agincourt ... The Miseries of Queene Margarite ... Wife of ... King Henry Sixt. Nimphidia, the Court of Fayrie. The Quest of Cinthia. The Shepheard's Sirena. The Moone-Calfe. Elegies Upon Sundrie Occasions

The Works. Being All the Writings of that Celebrated Author Now First Collected

Nymphidia, Or, The Court of Faery

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How to Create a Psychologically Safe and High-performance Organisation

Anti-burnout

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