Michael Drayton · Collected Poetical Works

A friend of Shakespeare, the Elizabethan poet Michael Drayton produced a prolific body of works of innovative metres and forms. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Drayton’s collected works, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Drayton's life and works

Concise introduction to the life and poetry of Drayton

Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

Excellent formatting of the poems

Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry

Easily locate the poems you want to read

Includes many rare poems available in no other collection

Also includes Drayton’s only extant drama, SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE

Features a bonus biography - discover Drayton's Elizabethan world

Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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CONTENTS:

The Life and Poetry of Michael Drayton

BRIEF INTRODUCTION: MICHAEL DRAYTON

The Poetry Collections

THE HARMONY OF THE CHURCH

IDEA, THE SHEPHERD’S GARLAND

THE LEGEND OF PIERS GAVESTON

IDEA’S MIRROR

MATILDA

ENDIMION AND PHOEBE

MORTIMERIADOS

THE LEGEND OF ROBERT, DUKE OF NORMANDY

ENGLAND’S HEROICAL EPISTLES

THE BARONS’ WARS IN THE REIGN OF EDWARD II

TO THE MAIESTIE OF KING JAMES

THE OWL

A PAEAN TRIUMPHALL

THE MAN IN THE MOON

BALLAD OF AGINCOURT

POLY-OLBION

IDEA, 1619

THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT

NIMPHIDIA, THE COURT OF FAERY

THE QUEST OF CINTHIA

THE SHEPHERD’S SIRENA

ELEGIES UPON SUNDRY OCCASIONS

THE MOON CALF

MOSES’ BIRTH AND MIRACLES

THE MUSES’ ELIZIUM

DAVID AND GOLIAH

THE SHORTER POEMS

The Poems

LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Play

SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE

The Biography

MICHAEL DRAYTON by Cyril Brett

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