Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles
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This collection published in 1897 includes three poets from the late 16th century. Michael Drayton was an Elizabethan poet who wrote Idea in 1593 which was a collection of nine pastorals, in which he celebrated his own love and sorrows under the poetic name of Rowland. In 1596 Bartholomew Griffin wrote his series of sonnets called Fidessa. William Smith published a sonnet sequence Chloris or The Complaint of the passionate despised Shepheard in 1596.
Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton (1563-1631), probably the bestselling English poet of his era, wrote prolifically in many different genres. He is remembered particularly for his love sonnets ("Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part...") and historical poems ("Fair stood the wind for France..."). "One of the most lovable of our elder poets" (in A. H. Bullen's much-quoted description), he was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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