The works of Michael Drayton / edited J. William Hebel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.

Contributor:

Hebel, J. William (John William), 1891-1934.

Tillotson, Kathleen, 1906-2001.

Newdigate, Bernard H. (Bernard Henry), 1869-1944.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

5 volumes : frontispieces (v. 1-3, 5) illustrations (facsimiles) plates, portrait, double maps. ; 24 cm

Edition:

[Corrected edition of the Michael Drayton tercentenary edition.].

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Published for the Shakespeare Head Press by Basil Blackwell, 1961.

Contents:

v.1. The harmonie of the church. Idea, the shepheards garland, fashioned in nine eglogs. Ideas mirrour, amours in quatorzains. Endimion andPhœbe, Ideas Latmus. Peirs Gaveston, earle of Cornwall. Matilda, the faire and chaste daughter of the Lord Robert Fitzwater. The tragicall legend of Robert, duke of Normandy. Mortimeriados, the lamentable civell warres of Edward the Second and the barrons. The first part of the true and honorable historie, of the life of Sir John Old-castle the good Lord Cobham. To the majestie of King James, a gratulatorie poem. A pæan triumphall. Sonnets not printed in Ideas mirrour, 1594, or in Idea, 1619. Two odes from Poemes lyrick and pastorall <1606> not reprinted in 1619. Uncollected poems.

v.2. The barons warres. Englands heroicall epistles. Idea in sixtie three sonnets. Odes, with other lyrick poesies.

Notes:

"Five hundred copies of this tercentenary edition ... have been printed."

With facsimiles of original title-pages.

"This edition aims at giving an accurate reprint of Drayton's own texts. In printing, modern typographical usage is followed."--Pref., v.1.

Vol. 4 has title: Poly-Olbion, by Michale Drayton; being the fourth volume of his works edited by J. William Hebel.

"A chronology of Michael Drayton's life and writings": v. 5, p. [xix]-xxx. Bibliography: v.5, p. 265-283.

The legends. The owle. Pastorals, contayning eglogues. The man in the moone--v.3. The vision of Ben, Jonson, on the muses of his friend M. Drayton. Upon The battaile of Agincourt, by J. Vaughan. To my worthy friend Mr. Michaell Drayton upon these his poems, by John Reynold. The battaile of Agincourt. The miseries of Queene Margarite. Nimphidia, the court of fayrie. The quest of Cynthia. The shepheards Sirena. The moone-calfe. Elegies upon sundry occasions. The muses Elizium. Noahs flood. Moses his birth and miracles. David and Goliah--v.4. The first part of Poly-Olbion. The second part, or a continuance of Poly-Olbion from the eighteenth song--v.5. Introduction, notes, variant readings, edited by Kathleen Tillotson and B.H. Newdigate.

Michael Drayton tercentenary edition, first published 1931-41. "Reprinted, 1961, by photolithography."

"Bibliography of the early editions of the writings of Michael Drayton, by Bent Juel-Jensen": volume 5, pages [265]-306.

OCLC:

351587