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...

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...

Robin Hood's Wakefield connections comes by way of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion Song 28 (67–70), composed in 1622. The poem strengthens Robin Hood's...

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...

th'ancient Heroes' deeds (the monuments of Kings) (Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion) Iambic Heptameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of seven...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thomas Churchyard (Worthiness of Wales, 1587); and Michael Drayton (Poly-Olbion, 1613). In the late 17th century, under Charles II, Monmouthshire was...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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."...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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"...

Description of Leicester Shire published. Second part of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion published. Sir Richard Hawkins' narrative of his adventures Voiage into...

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...

(masque) John Webster – The White Devil published Michael Drayton – Poly-Olbion Luis de Góngora – Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (Fable of Polyphemus and...