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    Sonnets: Includes the Amour & Idea Sonnet Cycles
    Sonnets: Includes the Amour & Idea Sonnet Cycles
    Sonnets: Includes the Amour & Idea Sonnet Cycles
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    Sonnets: Includes the Amour & Idea Sonnet Cycles

    By Michael Drayton

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    Michael Drayton was born in 1563 at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. The facts of his early life remain unknown. Drayton first published, in 1590, a volume of spiritual poems; The Harmony of the Church. Ironically the Archbishop of Canterbury seized almost the entire edition and had it destroyed. In 1593 he published Idea: The Shepherd's Garland, 9 pastorals celebrating his own love-sorrows under the poetic name of Rowland. This was later expanded to a 64 sonnet cycle. With the publication of The Legend of Piers Gaveston, Matilda and Mortimeriados, later enlarged and re-published, in 1603, under the title of The Barons' Wars. His career began to gather interest and attention. In 1596, The Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandy, another historical poem was published, followed in 1597 by England's Heroical Epistles, a series of historical studies, in imitation of those of Ovid. Written in the heroic couplet, they contain some of his finest writing. Like other poets of his era, Drayton wrote for the theatre; but unlike Shakespeare, Jonson, or Samuel Daniel, he invested little of his art in the genre. Between 1597 and 1602, Drayton was a member of the stable of playwrights who worked for Philip Henslowe. Henslowe's Diary links Drayton's name with 23 plays from that period, and, for all but one unfinished work, in collaboration with others such as Thomas Dekker, Anthony Munday, and Henry Chettle. Only one play has survived; Part 1 of Sir John Oldcastle, which Drayton wrote with Munday, Robert Wilson, and Richard Hathwaye but little of Drayton can be seen in its pages. By this time, as a poet, Drayton was well received and admired at the Court of Elizabeth 1st. If he hoped to continue that admiration with the accession of James 1st he thought wrong. In 1603, he addressed a poem of compliment to James I, but it was ridiculed, and his services rudely rejected. In 1605 Drayton reprinted his most important works; the historical poems and the Idea. Also published was a fantastic satire called The Man in the Moon and, for the for the first time the famous Ballad of Agincourt. Since 1598 he had worked on Poly-Olbion, a work to celebrate all the points of topographical or antiquarian interest in Great Britain. Eighteen books in total, the first were published in 1614 and the last in 1622. In 1627 he published another of his miscellaneous volumes. In it Drayton printed The Battle of Agincourt (an historical poem but not to be confused with his ballad on the same subject), The Miseries of Queen Margaret, and the acclaimed Nimphidia, the Court of Faery, as well as several other important pieces. Drayton last published in 1630 with The Muses' Elizium. Michael Drayton died in London on December 23rd, 1631. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, in Poets' Corner. A monument was placed there with memorial lines attributed to Ben Jonson.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Poetry
    Release dateJan 1, 2017
    ISBN9781787370067
    Sonnets: Includes the Amour & Idea Sonnet Cycles

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      Sonnets - Michael Drayton

      Sonnets by Michael Drayton

      Michael Drayton was born in 1563 at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. The facts of his early life remain unknown.

      Drayton first published, in 1590, a volume of spiritual poems; The Harmony of the Church.  Ironically the Archbishop of Canterbury seized almost the entire edition and had it destroyed.

      In 1593 he published Idea: The Shepherd's Garland, 9 pastorals celebrating his own love-sorrows under the poetic name of Rowland. This was later expanded to a 64 sonnet cycle.

      With the publication of The Legend of Piers Gaveston, Matilda and Mortimeriados, later enlarged and re-published, in 1603, under the title of The Barons' Wars. His career began to gather interest and attention.

      In 1596, The Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandy, another historical poem was published, followed in 1597 by England's Heroical Epistles, a series of historical studies, in imitation of those of Ovid. Written in the heroic couplet, they contain some of his finest writing.

      Like other poets of his era, Drayton wrote for the theatre; but unlike Shakespeare, Jonson, or Samuel Daniel, he invested little of his art in the genre. Between 1597 and 1602, Drayton was a member of the stable of playwrights who worked for Philip Henslowe. Henslowe's Diary links Drayton's name with 23 plays from that period, and, for all but one unfinished work, in collaboration with others such as Thomas Dekker, Anthony Munday, and Henry Chettle. Only one play has survived; Part 1 of Sir John Oldcastle, which Drayton wrote with Munday, Robert Wilson, and Richard Hathwaye but little of Drayton can be seen in its pages.

      By this time, as a poet, Drayton was well received and admired at the Court of Elizabeth 1st. If he hoped to continue that admiration with the accession of James 1st he thought wrong.  In 1603, he addressed a poem of compliment to James I, but it was ridiculed, and his services rudely rejected.

      In 1605 Drayton reprinted his most important works; the historical poems and the Idea. Also published was a fantastic satire called The Man in the Moon and, for the for the first time the famous Ballad of Agincourt.

      Since 1598 he had worked on Poly-Olbion, a work to celebrate all the points of topographical or antiquarian interest in Great Britain. Eighteen books in total, the first were published in 1614 and the last in 1622.

      In 1627 he published another of his miscellaneous volumes.  In it Drayton printed The Battle of Agincourt (an historical poem but not to be confused with his ballad on the same subject), The Miseries of Queen Margaret, and the acclaimed Nimphidia, the Court of Faery, as well as several other important pieces.

      Drayton last published in 1630 with The Muses' Elizium.

      Michael Drayton died in London on December 23rd, 1631.  He was buried in Westminster Abbey, in Poets' Corner.  A monument was placed there with memorial lines attributed to Ben Jonson.

      Index of Contents

      SONNETS FROM THE 1594 EDITION

      TO THE DEERE CHYLD OF THE MUSES, AND HIS EVER KIND MECÆNAS, MASTER ANTHONY COOKE, ESQ

      AMOUR I

      AMOUR II

      AMOUR III

      AMOUR IV

      AMOUR V

      AMOUR VI

      AMOUR VII

      AMOUR VIII

      AMOUR IX

      AMOUR X

      AMOUR XI

      AMOUR XII

      AMOUR XIII

      AMOUR XIV

      AMOUR XV

      AMOUR XVI

      AMOUR XVII

      AMOUR XVIII

      AMOUR XIX

      AMOUR XX

      AMOUR XXI

      AMOUR XXII

      AMOUR XXIII

      AMOUR XXIV

      AMOUR XXV

      AMOUR XXVI

      AMOUR XXVII

      AMOUR XXVIII

      AMOUR XXIX

      AMOUR XXX

      AMOUR XXXI

      AMOUR XXXII

      AMOUR XXXIII

      AMOUR XXXIV

      AMOUR XXXV

      AMOUR XXXVI

      AMOUR XXXVII

      AMOUR XXXVIII

      AMOUR XL

      AMOUR XLI

      AMOUR XLII

      AMOUR XLIII

      AMOUR XLIV

      AMOUR XLV

      AMOUR XLVI

      AMOUR XLVII

      AMOUR XLVIII

      AMOUR XLIX

      AMOUR L

      AMOUR LI

      SONNETS FROM THE 1599 EDITION

      SONNET I

      SONNET III

      SONNET IX

      SONNET XI - To the Moone

      SONNET XXI

      SONNET XXIII - To the Spheares

      SONNET XXVII

      SONNET XXXIV - To Admiration

      SONNET XLIII

      SONNET XLIV

      SONNET XLV

      SONNET LV

      SONNET LVI - A Consonet

      SONNET LVII - To Lucie, Countesse of Bedford

      SONNET LVIII - To the Lady Anne Harington

      SONNETS FROM THE 1602 EDITION

      SONNET XII - To Lunacie

      SONNET XVII

      SONNET XXV - To Folly

      SONNET XXVII

      SONNET XXXI

      SONNET XLI

      SONNET LXIII - To the High and Mighty Prince, James, King of Scots

      SONNET LXVI - To the Lady L.S.

      SONNETS FROM THE 1605 EDITION

      SONNET XLIII

      SONNET XLVI

      SONNET XLVII

      SONNET L

      SONNET LI

      SONNET LVII

      SONNET LVIII - Sir Walter Aston, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath & My Most Worthy Patron

      IDEA – AN ELIZABETHAN SONNET CYCLE

      TO THE READER OF THESE SONNETS

      IDEA I

      IDEA II

      IDEA III

      IDEA IV

      IDEA V

      IDEA VI

      IDEA VII

      IDEA VIII

      IDEA IX

      IDEA X

      IDEA XI

      IDEA XII - TO THE SOUL

      IDEA XIII - TO THE SHADOW

      IDEA XIV

      IDEA XV - HIS REMEDY FOR LOVE

      IDEA XVI - AN ALLUSION TO THE PHOENIX

      IDEA XVII - TO TIME

      IDEA XVIII - TO THE CELESTIAL NUMBERS

      IDEA XIX - TO HUMOUR

      IDEX XX

      IDEA XXI

      IDEA XXII – TO FOLLY

      IDEA XXIII

      IDEA XXIV

      IDEA XXV

      IDEA XXVI - TO DESPAIR

      IDEA XXVII

      IDEA XXVIII

      IDEA XXIX - TO THE SENSES

      IDEA XXX - TO THE VESTALS

      IDEA XXXI - TO THE CRITICS

      IDEA XXXII - TO THE RIVER ANKOR

      IDEA XXXIII - TO IMAGINATION

      IDEA XXXIV - TO ADMIRATION

      IDEA XXXV - TO MIRACLE

      IDEA XXXVI - CUPID CONJURED

      IDEA XXXVII

      IDEA XXXVIII

      IDEA XXXIX

      IDEA XL

      IDEA XLI - LOVE'S LUNACY

      IDEA XLII

      IDEA XLIII

      IDEA XLIV

      IDEA XLV

      IDEA XLVI

      IDEA XLVII

      IDEA XLVIII

      IDEA XLIX

      IDEA L

      IDEA LI

      IDEA LII

      IDEA LIII - ANOTHER TO THE RIVER ANKOR

      IDEA LIV

      IDEA LV

      IDEA LVI - AN ALLUSION TO THE EAGLETS

      IDEA LVII

      IDEA LVIII

      IDEA LIX - TO PROVERBS

      IDEA LX

      IDEA LXI

      IDEA LXII

      IDEA LXIII

      Michael Drayton – A Short Biography by Cyril Brett

      A Chronology of Michael Drayton’s Life and Works

      Michael Drayton – A Concise Bibliography. The Major Works

      SONNETS FROM THE 1594 EDITION

      TO THE DEERE CHYLD OF THE MUSES, AND HIS EVER KIND MECÆNAS, MASTER ANTHONY COOKE, ESQ

      Vovchsafe to grace these rude vnpolish'd rymes,

      Which long (dear friend) haue slept in sable night,

      And, come abroad now in these glorious tymes,

      Can hardly brook the purenes of the light.

      But still you see their desteny is such,

      That in the world theyr fortune they must try,

      Perhaps they better shall abide the tuch,

      Wearing your name, theyr gracious liuery.

      Yet these mine owne: I wrong not other men,

      Nor trafique further then thys happy Clyme,

      Nor filch from Portes, nor from Petrarchs pen,

      A fault too common in this latter time.

      Divine Syr Phillip, I auouch thy writ,

      I am no Pickpurse of anothers wit.

      Yours devoted,

      M. DRAYTON.

      AMOUR I

      Reade heere (sweet Mayd) the story of my wo,

      The drery abstracts of my endles cares,

      With my lives sorow enterlyned so;

      Smok'd with my sighes, and blotted with my teares:

      The sad memorials of my miseries,

      Pend in the griefe of myne afflicted ghost;

      My lives complaint in doleful Elegies,

      With so pure love as tyme could never boast.

      Receaue the incense which I offer heere,

      By my strong fayth ascending to thy fame,

      My zeale, my hope, my vowes, my praise, my prayer,

      My soules oblation to thy sacred name:

      Which name my Muse to highest heaven shal raise

      By chast desire, true love, and vertues praise.

      AMOUR II

      My fayre, if thou wilt register my love,

      More then worlds volumes shall thereof arise;

      Preserve my teares, and thou thy selfe shall prove

      A second flood downe rayning from mine eyes.

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