Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Michael Drayton
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Hydrographicall of all the forests, woods, mountaines, fountaines,
riuers, lakes, flouds, bathes, & springs that be in England.'] [Footnote 21: Cf. _Amours_ (1594), xx and xxiv.] [Footnote 22: Cf. Sonnet vj (1619 edition); which is a dignified summary of much that he says more coarsely in the _Moone-Calfe_.] [Footnote 23: Cf. Morley's ed. _Barons' Wars, &c._, p. 8.] [Footnote 24: Charles FitzGeoffrey, _Drake_ (1596), 'golden-mouthed Drayton musical.' Guilpin, _Skialetheia_ (1598), 'Drayton's condemned of some for imitation, But others say, 'tis the best poet's fashion ... Drayton's justly surnam'd golden-mouth'd.' Meres, _Palladis Tamia_ (1598),' In Charles Fitz-Jefferies _Drake_ Drayton is termed "golden-mouth'd" for the purity and pretiousnesse of his stile and phrase.'] [Footnote 25: Cf. _E. H. E._, pp. 90, 99 (ed. 1737); Elegy i; and _Ode written in the Peak_.] [Footnote 26: Elegy viij, ad init.] [Footnote 27: _Palladis Tamia_ (1598).] [Footnote 28: Cf. _Returne from Parnassus_, i. 2 (1600) ed. Arb. p. 11.] [Footnote 29: _Michael Drayton. A Critical Study_. Oliver Elton, M.A. London: A. Constable & Co., 1905.] |
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