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Title: Minor Poems of Michael Drayton

Author: Michael Drayton

Editor: Cyril Brett

Release Date: February 27, 2006 [EBook #17873]

Language: English

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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 Garla