The English poet Michael Drayton (1563-1631) attempted to create a strong national culture by turning for inspiration to English history rather than to foreign sources. Like his contemporary William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton was the son of a prosperou...
In late-seventeenth-century estimates of literary stature, Michael Drayton ranks only slightly below Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Ben Jonson. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Drayton's position as an important minor poet seemed secure...
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Novemberland, first published in March 1993, contains a number of direct allusions to disquieting political events of the preceding November. It represents a reaction to the "new" Germany, and it sometimes laments, and sometimes vituperates against, problems and injustices arising from unification. The author...
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