Coll. ed. of works by John Small, LL.D., 4 vols., 1874.

DOYLE, SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS (1810-1888).—­Poet, belonged to a military family which produced several distinguished officers, including his f., who bore the same name.  He was b. near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, and ed. at Eton and Oxf.  Studying law he was called to the Bar in 1837, and afterwards held various high fiscal appointments, becoming in 1869 Commissioner of Customs.  In 1834 he pub. Miscellaneous Verses, followed by Two Destinies (1844), Oedipus, King of Thebes (1849), and Return of the Guards (1866).  He was elected in 1867 Prof. of Poetry at Oxf.  D.’s best work is his ballads, which include The Red Thread of Honour, The Private of the Buffs, and The Loss of the Birkenhead.  In his longer poems his genuine poetical feeling was not equalled by his power of expression, and much of his poetry is commonplace.

DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN (1795-1820).—­Poet, b. at New York, studied medicine, d. of consumption.  He collaborated with F. Halleck in the Croaker Papers, and wrote “The Culprit Fay” and “The American Flag.”

DRAPER, JOHN WILLIAM (1811-1882).—­Historian, b. at St. Helen’s, Lancashire, emigrated to Virginia, and was a prof. in the Univ. of New York.  He wrote History of the American Civil War (1867-70), History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (1863), and History of the Conflict between Science and Religion (1874), besides treatises on various branches of science.

DRAYTON, MICHAEL (1563-1631).—­Poet, b. in Warwickshire, was in early life page to a gentleman, and was possibly at Camb. or Oxf.  His earliest poem, The Harmonie of the Church, was destroyed.  His next was The Shepherd’s Garland (1593), afterwards reprinted as Eclogues.  Three historical poems, Gaveston (1593), Matilda (1594), and Robert, Duke of Normandie (1596) followed, and he then appears to have collaborated with Dekker, Webster, and others in dramatic work.  His magnum opus, however, was Polyolbion (1613?), a topographical description of England in twelve-syllabled verse, full of antiquarian and historical details, so accurate as to make the work an authority on such matters.  The rushing verse is full of vigour and gusto.  Other poems of D. are The Wars of the Barons (1603), England’s Heroical Epistles (1598) (being imaginary letters between Royal lovers such as Henry II. and Rosamund), Poems, Lyric and Heroic (1606) (including the fine ballad of “Agincourt"), Nymphidia, his most graceful work, Muses Elizium, and Idea’s Mirrour, a collection of sonnets, Idea being the name of the lady to whom they were addressed.  Though often heavy, D. had the true poetic gift, had passages of grandeur, and sang the praises of England with the heart of a patriot.