Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530062829)

The true story of the life of Michael Drayton might be told to, vindicate the poetic traditions of the olden time. A child-poet wandering in fay-haunted Arden, or listening to the harper that frequented the fireside of Polesworth Hall where the boy was a petted page, later the honoured almoner of the bounty of many patrons, one who "not unworthily," as Tofte said, "beareth the name of the chiefest archangel, singing after this soule-ravishing manner," yet leaving but "five pounds lying by him at his death, which was satis viatici ad coelum"-is not this the panorama of a poetic career? But above all, to complete the picture of the ideal poet, he worshipped, and hopelessly, from youth to age the image of one, woman.

Author: Griffin, Smith, Drayton
ISBN-10: 1530062829
ISBN-13: 9781530062829
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/24/2016
Pages: 60
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.12d