Book excerpt: A friend of Shakespeare, the Elizabethan poet Michael Drayton produced a prolific body of works of innovative metres and forms. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Drayton’s collected works, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Drayton's life and works * Concise introduction to the life and poetry of Drayton * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes many rare poems available in no other collection * Also includes Drayton’s only extant drama, SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE * Features a bonus biography - discover Drayton's Elizabethan world * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Michael Drayton BRIEF INTRODUCTION: MICHAEL DRAYTON The Poetry Collections THE HARMONY OF THE CHURCH IDEA, THE SHEPHERD’S GARLAND THE LEGEND OF PIERS GAVESTON IDEA’S MIRROR MATILDA ENDIMION AND PHOEBE MORTIMERIADOS THE LEGEND OF ROBERT, DUKE OF NORMANDY ENGLAND’S HEROICAL EPISTLES THE BARONS’ WARS IN THE REIGN OF EDWARD II TO THE MAIESTIE OF KING JAMES THE OWL A PAEAN TRIUMPHALL THE MAN IN THE MOON BALLAD OF AGINCOURT POLY-OLBION IDEA, 1619 THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT NIMPHIDIA, THE COURT OF FAERY THE QUEST OF CINTHIA THE SHEPHERD’S SIRENA ELEGIES UPON SUNDRY OCCASIONS THE MOON CALF MOSES’ BIRTH AND MIRACLES THE MUSES’ ELIZIUM DAVID AND GOLIAH THE SHORTER POEMS The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Play SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE The Biography MICHAEL DRAYTON by Cyril Brett Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles