Delia: Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle

by Samuel Daniel, Mark Tuley (Editor)

Emulated by Shakespeare and admired by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Lamb, Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) is hardly a ‘minor’ poet. Yet, apart from the odd sonnet appearing in anthologies, nowadays he appears to be largely forgotten.
This neglect is unforgivable because the gentle elegance of Daniel’s verse would greatly reward today’s discerning reader.
This edition of Delia aims to make some of this master sonneteer’s delightful work readily available to a wider audience, this time not for arid academic work, but for pure personal pleasure.
Because poetry is meant to be enjoyed!

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1595

About the author

Samuel Daniel was born in 1562 near Taunton in Somerset to a music-master. In 1579, Daniel was admitted to Magdalen Hall (now known as Hertford College) at Oxford University, where he remained for about three years and afterwards devoted himself to the study of poetry and philosophy.

Late in life, Daniel retired to a farm called The Ridge, near Beckington, in Somerset, where he died on 14 October 1619.