MINOR POEMS OF MICHAEL DRAYTON ***
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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_.
