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Michael Drayton ( Harshull, condado de Warwick, 1563 - 23 de diciembre de 1631) fue un poeta y dramaturgo inglés que destacó en la era isabelina .
Michael Drayton (1563-1631) was an English poet who wrote historical, pastoral, and lyric poems in various forms and styles. He was the first to introduce odes in the English language and to write a topographical survey of Britain, Poly-Olbion.
Michael Drayton was an English poet, the first to write odes in English in the manner of Horace. Drayton spent his early years in the service of Sir Henry Goodere, to whom he owed his education, and whose daughter, Anne, he celebrated as Idea in his poems.
In The Muses Elizium Michael Drayton prophesies a bleak future for England and no future at all for the kind of poetry he had spent his life writing. Drayton’s truthfulness earned him the respect of his contemporaries even if it did not win him prosperity.
Michael Drayton (b. 1563–d. 1631) was one of the most versatile of English poets: he wrote sonnets and theatrical plays, as well as historical, pastoral, and topographical poetry. He was highly praised in his own time, by Ben Jonson among others, and was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.
Learn about the life and works of Michael Drayton (1563—1631), a prolific English poet of historical, topographical, and religious verse. Find his famous sonnet ‘Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part’ and his epic poem The Poly-Olbion.
Michael Drayton (DRAYT-uhn), born at Hartshill, Warwickshire, in 1563, may have been the most prolific as well as the most dedicated poet of his period. His Poly-Olbion, completed in 1622 and ten...
