Michael Drayton

(1563-1631)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631 NRA: Drayton, Michael (1563-1631) Poet DNB: Drayton, Michael (1563-1631), poet LBT ID: MiDrayt1631 VIAF ID: 19758771 LOC ID: n50027896	B/BAP: 1563 DIED: 1631
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English poet, the imitator of Spenser and friend of Ben Jonson; he published Poly-Olbion (1612).
REFERENCES TO Michael Drayton: Robert Southey to Walter Savage Landor, 15 July 1811 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [19 September 1814] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 8 Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Review 53 (June 1831) 544-572 Found 1: ¶ 30 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1783-86 Found 1: ¶ 16 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XVI. 1810-1811 Leigh Hunt to Charles Cowden Clarke, 7 July 1857 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 2 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Leigh Hunt Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1802 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1814 Found 1: ¶ 10