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Michael Drayton

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Also known as Michaell Drayton Eſquier, Michaell Drayton, Esquire

English poet

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Born
1563
Died
1631
Works
112

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  • Poems
  • A midsummer-night's dream
  • Endimion and Phoebe, Ideas Latmus
  • England's heroical epistles, written in imitation of the stile and manner of Ovid's Epistles
  • Bosvvorth-field

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Michael Drayton (1563 – December 23, 1631) was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era. He was born at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Almost nothing is known about his early life, beyond the fact that in 1580 he was in the service of Thomas Goodere of Collingham, Nottinghamshire. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars, on the basis of scattered allusions in his poems and dedications, suggested that Drayton might have studied at the University of Oxfor

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Quotes

  • Dear, why should you command me to my rest,When now the night doth summon all to sleep?Methinks this time becometh lovers best;Night was ordain'd together friends to keep.

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date of birth
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