1635 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Michael Drayton

Henry Reynolds, in Mythomystes (1635) 9.

Commentary for
Michael Drayton:

1595: Dr. Thomas Lodge
1597: E. Sc. Gent.
1598: Rev. Francis Meres
1599: John Weever
1602: Sir John Beaumont
1603: Henry Chettle
1603: Thomas Greene
1603: Sir John Beaumont
1604: Thomas Andrewe
1606: Anonymous
1607: Christopher Brooke
1611 ca.: John Davies of Hereford
1613: George Wither
1616: William Browne of Tavistock
1619: William Drummond
1619: John Selden
1620: Henry Peacham
1621: William Slatyer
1622: William Browne of Tavistock
1627: Ben Jonson
1627: John Reynolds
1631: Sir Aston Cokayne
1631 ca.: Francis Quarles
1635: Henry Reynolds
1645: George Wither
1646: George Daniel of Beswick
1646: Samuel Sheppard
1663: Anonymous
1695: J. W.
1695: T. B.
1695: Edwine Sadleyr
1720: Giles Jacob
1728: Alexander Pope
1748: William Oldys
1756: Rev. Joseph Warton
1764: David Erskine Baker
1779: Rev. Vicesimus Knox
1787: Henry Headley
1789: Anonymous
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1808: Charles Lamb
1808: Anonymous
1811: Walter Savage Landor
1812: Isaac D'Israeli
1819: Thomas Campbell
1824: William Hazlitt
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1829: Anna Brownell Jameson
1831: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1834: Robert Aris Willmott
1836: Richard Cattermole
1842: C. H. Timperley
1845: Edward Farr
1847: Edward Farr
1860: George Gilfillan
1862: Thomas Arnold
1866: John Payne Collier
1866: John Payne Collier
1866: John Payne Collier
1880: George Saintsbury
1882: Epes Sargent
1882: Edmund Gosse

Commentary by
Henry Reynolds:

1635: Michael Drayton

Wee have among us a late-writ Polyolbion also, and an Agincourte, wherein I will only blame their Authours ill fate, in not having laid him out some happier Clime, to have given honour and life to, in some happier language.