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September 1, 2023
I read these three books [Idea's Mirror, Idea and Nymphidia: The Court of Fairy] completely by accident; I read some excerpts in an anthology of seventeenth century verse I am reading (the oldest poet included), went online to find more information about him, and started reading them on my computer and kept going so that in about two or two-and-a-half hours I had read all three. Drayton is a bit earlier than my current reading project (which was at first intended to start with Blake, then with Dryden, then with Butler and I keep going farther and farther back rather than forward.) After reading them I went out to my garage/library to put away some newly acquired books and again purely by accident I stumbled on a short biography of Drayton, which I will probably read next week, since I doubt whether I will ever come back to Drayton in the future.
Born the year before Shakespeare, but living fifteen years longer, Drayton bridges the period between the Elizabethan era and the early seventeenth century. While somewhat of a minor figure, he is interesting. Idea's Mirror (1594) is a collection of about fifty sonnets supposedly written by a shepherd named Gorbo to his love, Idea. Idea (1619) is a revised version of the same work, although many of the earlier poems have dropped out and more have been added (the collection contains seventy-three poems); of the sonnets contained in both versions, most seemed to have been revised quite a bit. Although Drayton is considered a literary "conservative" continuing Elizabethan traditions into the new century, the differences do show a certain receptivity to seventeenth-century style.
Born the year before Shakespeare, but living fifteen years longer, Drayton bridges the period between the Elizabethan era and the early seventeenth century. While somewhat of a minor figure, he is interesting. Idea's Mirror (1594) is a collection of about fifty sonnets supposedly written by a shepherd named Gorbo to his love, Idea. Idea (1619) is a revised version of the same work, although many of the earlier poems have dropped out and more have been added (the collection contains seventy-three poems); of the sonnets contained in both versions, most seemed to have been revised quite a bit. Although Drayton is considered a literary "conservative" continuing Elizabethan traditions into the new century, the differences do show a certain receptivity to seventeenth-century style.
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