Michael Drayton

Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Michael Drayton

This collection published in 1897 includes three poets from the late 16th century. Michael Drayton was an Elizabethan poet who wrote Idea in 1593 which was a collection of nine pastorals, in which he celebrated his own love and sorrows under the poetic name of Rowland. In 1596 Bartholomew Griffin wrote his series of sonnets called Fidessa. William Smith published a sonnet sequence Chloris or The Complaint of the passionate despised Shepheard in 1596.