Author:Michael Drayton

Michael Drayton
(1563–1631)

Michael Drayton

Works

Poetry

• The Harmonie of the Church (1591)
• Idea. The Shepheards Garland. Fashioned in nine Eglogs. Rowlands Sacrifice to the Nine Muses (1593)
• The Legend of Piers Gaveston (1593)
• Matilda, the faire and chaste Daughter of the Lord Robert Fitzwater (1594)
• Ideas Mirrour, Amours in Quatorzains (1594)
• The Tragicall Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandie (1596)
• Mortimeriados (1596)
• England's Heroical Epistles (1597)
• The Barrons Wars (1603), a revised version of "Mortimeriados"
• To the majestie of King James. A gratulatorie Poem (1603)
• A Pæan Triumphall: composed for the societie of the Goldsmiths of London congratulating his Highnes Magnificent Entring the Citie (1604)
• The Owle (1604)
• Moyses in a Map of his Miracles (1604)
• Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall: Odes, Eglogs, the Man in the Moone (n.d., 1605?)
• Poems, Lyric and Heroic (1606)
  • To the Virginian Voyage (c1606)
• The Legend of Great Cromwell (1607)
• Poly-olbion, or a Chorographicall Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountaines, Forests, and other Parts … of Great Britaine (1612)
• The Battaile of Agincourt (1627)
• The Muses Elizium lately discovered by a new way over Parnassus … Noahs floud, Moses his birth and miracles. David and Golia (1630)
• Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandy

Plays

• The First Part of the True and Honorable Historie of the Life of Sir John Old-castle, the good Lord Cobham (1600), co-authored with Robert Wilson, Richard Hathwaye, and Anthony Munday

Works about Drayton

• "Drayton, Michael," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Drayton, Michael," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Drayton, Michael," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)