Idea: A Cycle of Sixty-Four Elizabethan Sonnets (Poetry for Personal Pleasure)

Michael Drayton (1563-1631) was a prominent Elizabethan poet and a prolific writer. Later emulated by Fairfax, Waller and Dryden, Drayton's poems possess an instant, direct, and universal appeal. In 1593 Drayton published Idea: The Shepherd's Garland, a collection of nine eclogues. Its basic concept was subsequently reworked into a cycle of sixty-four sonnets and published in 1594 under the title of Idea's Mirror. This edition of Idea aims to make Drayton's sonnets readily available to a wider audience, this time not for arid academic study, but for pure personal pleasure. Because poetry is meant to be enjoyed!

• • Author: Michael Drayton, M. P. Lauretta
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: May 23, 2018
• • Number of Pages: 90 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1719430012
• • ISBN-13: 9781719430012