Idea XLIII: Why should your fair eyes with such sovereign grace
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Poet Michael Drayton 1563–1631
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD 17th Century
Subjects Love, Unrequited Love
Biography
In late-seventeenth-century estimates of literary stature, Michael Drayton ranks only slightly below Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Ben Jonson. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Drayton's position as an important minor poet seemed secure, but his lengthy historical poems did not lend themselves to the techniques of close reading popularized during the vogue of New Criticism in the 1940s and after. An . . .
Poems by Michael Drayton
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Love, Unrequited Love
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD 17th Century
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