Michael Drayton

01 January 1563 - 01 January 1631

Standard Name: Drayton, Michael

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships	Bathsua Makin	Her father, Henry Reginald , was a schoolmaster in the parish of St Mary Axe, London, an author, and a friend of the poet Michael Drayton . He was reasonably prosperous, intellectually active, and...
Family and Intimate relationships	Gertrude Thimelby	Her father, Sir Walter Aston , patron of Michael Drayton , was British Ambassador to Spain 1620-5 and 1635-8. He was created a baron in 1627. During one of his periods in Spain he became...
Intertextuality and Influence	Frances Jacson	Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson
Publishing	A. Mary F. Robinson	She had already published an essay on Michael Drayton in the same magazine earlier that year, in July. She contributed essays and fiction to several other periodicals, including Fraser's Magazine, the Fortnightly Review,...
Textual Features	Alexander Pope	These two poems celebrate passionate love and loss experienced by fictional women, victimised by an unfeeling world; the first is a tour de force of ventriloquism, as Pope persuasively adopts a female voice. Pope's Eloisa...

Michael Drayton 's England's Heroicall Epistles was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it appeared the same year.

Drayton, Michael. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton. Editor Brett, Cyril, Clarendon Press, 1907.

Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.

Drayton, Michael. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton. Editor Brett, Cyril, Clarendon Press, 1907.