Poems by Michael Drayton esquyer. Newly corrected and augmented
by Drayton, Michael
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Printed: 1637 1563-1631 Octavo, 5 1/4 x 325 in A-X12 This copy is bound in nineteenth century full red morocco, with gilt spine and edges Born within a year before Shakespeare, and dying when Milton was already twenty-three, he worked hard at poetry during nearly sixty years of his long life, and was successful in keeping in touch with the poetical progress of a crowded and swiftly-moving period His earliest published work tastes of Tottel's Miscellany: before he dies, he suggests Carew and Suckling, and even anticipates Dryden This quality of forming, as it were, a map or mirror of his age gives him a special interest to the student of poetry, which is quite distinct from his peculiar merits as a poet
This edition of the poems contains "The baron's wars", "England's heroical epistles", "The legend of Robert Duke of Normandy", "The legend of Matilda", "The legend of Pierce Gaveston", "The legend of Great Cromwell" and "Idea"
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- James Gray Bookseller (US)
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- Title
- Poems by Michael Drayton esquyer. Newly corrected and augmented
- Author
- Drayton, Michael
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Publisher
- W. Stansby for J. Smethwick
- Place of Publication
- London: 1637
- Date Published
- 1637
- Pages
- A-X12
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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