Author:Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton
Works
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- The Harmonie of the Church (1591)
- Idea. The Shepheards Garland. Fashioned in nine Eglogs. Rowlands Sacrifice to the Nine Muses (1593)
- The Legend of Piers Gaveston (1593)
- Matilda, the faire and chaste Daughter of the Lord Robert Fitzwater (1594)
- Ideas Mirrour, Amours in Quatorzains (1594)
- The Tragicall Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandie (1596)
- Mortimeriados (1596)
- England's Heroical Epistles (1597)
- The Barrons Wars (1603), a revised version of "Mortimeriados"
- To the majestie of King James. A gratulatorie Poem (1603)
- A Pæan Triumphall: composed for the societie of the Goldsmiths of London congratulating his Highnes Magnificent Entring the Citie (1604)
- The Owle (1604)
- Moyses in a Map of his Miracles (1604)
- Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall: Odes, Eglogs, the Man in the Moone (n.d., 1605?)
- Poems, Lyric and Heroic (1606)
- To the Virginian Voyage (c1606)
- The Legend of Great Cromwell (1607)
- Poly-olbion, or a Chorographicall Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountaines, Forests, and other Parts … of Great Britaine (1612)
- The Battaile of Agincourt (1627)
- The Muses Elizium lately discovered by a new way over Parnassus … Noahs floud, Moses his birth and miracles. David and Golia (1630)
- Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandy
Plays
[edit]- The First Part of the True and Honorable Historie of the Life of Sir John Old-castle, the good Lord Cobham (1600), co-authored with Robert Wilson, Richard Hathwaye, and Anthony Munday
Works about Drayton
[edit]- "Drayton, Michael," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "Drayton, Michael," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Drayton, Michael," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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