Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . phical and antiquarian details, allusionsto remarkable events and persons, local sportsand customs ; yet the inevitable prolixity andmonotony of such a scheme is atoned for by the 342 Michael Drayton beauty of Draytons descriptions, the skill of histreatment, the brightness of his fancy, and thedelightfulness of his melody, as well as by themultifariousness of his information—informationin general so
Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . phical and antiquarian details, allusionsto remarkable events and persons, local sportsand customs ; yet the inevitable prolixity andmonotony of such a scheme is atoned for by the 342 Michael Drayton beauty of Draytons descriptions, the skill of histreatment, the brightness of his fancy, and thedelightfulness of his melody, as well as by themultifariousness of his information—informationin general so accurate that the poem is quotedas an authority by Wood and Hearne. In i6ig Drayton collected all his poems (butPolyolbioit) that he wanted preserved, and in 1627published a new volume containing the whimsicaland delightful Nympliidia, The Quest of Cynthia,and The Battaile of Agincourt (distinct from theBallad). In conjunction with Chettle, Dekker,Munday, Webster, and others he had a share inmany plays, notably ^/V _/(?/;« O Ideas tic. His lastwork. The Muses Eliziutn (1630), deals with Noahsflood, the birth of Moses, David and Goliath ; andthe great sonnet, Since theres no help, first. MICHAEL DRAVTOX. From the Portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. published in the 1619 folio, was pronounced byRossetti as almost the best in the language, ifnot quite. On his death in 1631, Drayton wasburied in Westminster Abbey. From in IVarwickshirc—a Stag-liimt. My native country then, which so brave spirits hast bred, If there be vertue yet remaining in thy earth, Or any good of thine then breathdst into my birth, Accept it as thine owne whilst now I sing of thee Of all thy later brood th unworthiest though I bee. Muse, first of Arden tell, whose foot-steps yet are foundIn her rough wood-lands more than any other groundThat mighty Arden held even in her height of pride,Her one hand touching Trent, the other Severns side. When Phoebus lifts his head out of the wi
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