ELIZABETHAN SONNET CYCLES VOLUME TWO Five Major Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences By Henry Constable, Giles Fletcher, Bartholomew Griffin, Thomas Lodge and William Smith A collection of five major sonnet sequences from the Elizabethan era by Henry Constable, Giles Fletcher, Bartholomew Griffin, Thomas Lodge and William Smith. Each sonnet cycle is love poetry, and several of the sonnet cycles are lesser-known. This edition prints each poem cycle on its own, without notes or editorial intrusions. And each poem has a page to itself. It's a useful edition for students. Illustrated. British Poets Series. 372 pages. www.crmoon.com
Michael Drayton (1563-1631) was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era. In 1591 he produced his first book, The Harmony of the Church, a volume of spiritual poems, dedicated to Lady Devereux. In 1593 appeared Idea: The Shepherd's Garland, a collection of nine pastorals, in which he celebrated his own love-sorrows under the poetic name of Rowland. The basic idea was expanded in a cycle of sixty-four sonnets, published in 1594, under the title of Idea's Mirror, by which we learn that the lady lived by the river Ankor in Warwickshire. In 1596 Drayton published his long and important poem Mortimeriados. Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) was an English poet. He is particularly known for his Fidessa sequence of sonnets, published in 1596. William Smith (15 -16 ) was an English sonneteer, poet, and friend of Edmund Spenser. He participated in The Phoenix Nest (1593), England's Helicon (1600) and published a sonnet sequence Chloris; or, The Complaint of the Passionate Despised Shepheard in 1596.
A collection of five major sonnet sequences from the Elizabethan era by Henry Constable, Giles Fletcher, Bartholomew Griffin, Thomas Lodge and William Smith.
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