The Poly-Olbion is a topographical poem describing England and Wales. Written by Michael Drayton (1563–1631) and published in 1612, it was reprinted with...
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Sir Philip Sidney, and in two notable long poems, Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion and Robert Browning's Fifine at the Fair, they have more often featured...
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to have been confused with one that comes from a 1590 poem entitled Poly-Olbion by Michael Drayton. It states that the banner carried by the Cornish...
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denizened for ours. That boding, ominous brook !" From Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion 1612 Freeman suggested that Senlac meant Sand Lake in Old English, with...
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Brereton Hall (section The Poly-Olbion)
School. Brereton appears in Drayton's Poly-Olbion, inspired by the traditions around the Brereton Lake. The Poly-Olbion is a 1612 topographical poem that...
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few from the 17th; the most prominent of these is Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion (1612) in couplets of iambic hexameter. An example from Drayton (marking...
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th'ancient Heroes' deeds (the monuments of Kings) (Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion) Iambic Heptameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of seven...
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poet Michael Drayton devoted a long section of his topographical poem Poly-Olbion to what he called the "Vale of Red-horse", noting it was in length "near...
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evidence for wrestling in the West Country comes from a 1612 poem entitled "Poly-Olbion" by Michael Drayton, which gives the names of some Cornish Wrestling...
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theory is that Robin Hood died at Kirkby, Pontefract. Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion Song 28 (67–70), published in 1622, speaks of Robin Hood's death and...
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2010. The Fairie Queen, book 4, canto 11, verse 32 Poly-Olbion, Song XVII lines 20-32 Poly-Olbion, Song XVII lines 47-50, 53-57, 59-64 R Bloomfield (1806)...
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confluence with the River Thame at Dorchester on Thames: Extract from Poly-Olbion ..."That Isis, Cotswolds heire, long woo'd was lastly wonne, And instantly...
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Thomas Churchyard (Worthiness of Wales, 1587); and Michael Drayton (Poly-Olbion, 1613). In the late 17th century, under Charles II, Monmouthshire was...
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Hurling to the Countrye. c. 1590, poet Michael Drayton, in his work Poly-Olbion, writes on Cornish hurling: According to the law, or when the ball to...
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It is one of the "Fower stately Wood Nymphs" (Michael Drayton, 1611, Poly-Olbion, Song 17) of the Forest Ridge (the other three being Worth, Ashdown and...
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1613, the first part of this vast work was published under the title of Poly-Olbion, eighteen books being produced, to which the learned John Selden supplied...
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by the construction of the Royal Citadel in 1665. Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion preserves the tale as well: Amongst the ragged Cleeves those monstrous...
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was a thing of the past. Michael Drayton provided a sidenote in his Poly-Olbion (published 1612): "Lincoln anciently dyed the best green in England."...
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quotations and references, to the first eighteen cantos of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. In 1614 he published Titles of Honor, which, in spite of defects and...
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county's forests were decimated. The poet Michael Drayton in his poem Poly-Olbion, published in the early 17th century, made the trees denounce the iron...
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high'st regard the fourth of all the land", as Michael Drayton noted in Poly-Olbion (1612). The wealth generated by the wool trade throughout the Middle...
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between the two kings' realms at Watling Street. In Michael Drayton's poem Poly-Olbion (Song 24), he is described as "Odo the Severe". Farmer Oxford Dictionary...
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(masque) John Webster – The White Devil published Michael Drayton – Poly-Olbion Luis de Góngora – Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (Fable of Polyphemus and...
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divide was also described in Michael Drayton's epic topographical poem, Poly-Olbion, The Sixe and Twentieth Song, 1622: And of the British floods, though...
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Michael Drayton retold the story of Beves and the giant Ascopart in his Poly-Olbion, Second Song. John Bunyan's A Few Sighs from Hell records that in his...
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Burning as Light: 37 poems (1967) - selection by Leonard Clark The New Poly-Olbion (1967) - prose poems Posthumous publications The Poetic Jesus (SPCK,...
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Michael Drayton: "While Malvern, king of hills, Severn overlooks", (Poly-Olbion, 1613, song 7), John Dyer: "By the blue steeps of distant Malvern wall'd"...
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Description of Leicester Shire published. Second part of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion published. Sir Richard Hawkins' narrative of his adventures Voiage into...
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Robert The Structure of Rime Duncan, Robert Passages Drayton, Michael Poly-Olbion 1612; 1622 15,000 lines alexandrine Emerson, Claudia Pinion Fitchett...
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also owed an influence from older sources. Michael Drayton's 1612 poem Poly-Olbion had for instance portrayed them as wise, monotheistic sages and philosophers...
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