Michael Drayton
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English poet
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1563
- Died
- 1631
- Works
- 112
Top works
- Poems
- A midsummer-night's dream
- Endimion and Phoebe, Ideas Latmus
- England's heroical epistles, written in imitation of the stile and manner of Ovid's Epistles
- Bosvvorth-field
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Michael Drayton (1563 – December 23, 1631) was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era. He was born at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Almost nothing is known about his early life, beyond the fact that in 1580 he was in the service of Thomas Goodere of Collingham, Nottinghamshire. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars, on the basis of scattered allusions in his poems and dedications, suggested that Drayton might have studied at the University of Oxfor
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Hartshill
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Portrait of Michael Drayton by Sylvester Harding.jpg
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- place of burial
- Westminster Abbey
- date of birth
- 1563-01-01
- Commons category
- Michael Drayton
- date of death
- 1631-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Michael Drayton
- P12749
- Lugau
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