Michael Drayton cytaty

Michael Drayton – poeta angielski.

Był autorem cyklu sonetów Ideas Mirrour wzorowanych na twórczości Williama Szekspira i Francesca Petrarki. Pisał też poematy historyczne i pasterskie, wśród nich poemat Poly-Olbion będący poetyckim opisem topograficznym Anglii. Wikipedia  

✵ 1563 – 23. Grudzień 1631
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Michael Drayton cytaty

Michael Drayton: Cytaty po angielsku

“Victor I will remain
Or on this earth lie slain,
Never shall she sustain
Loss to redeem me.”

Michael Drayton

Źródło: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 37-40.

“Oh, when shall English men
With such acts fill a pen,
Or England breed again
Such a King Harry?”

Michael Drayton

Źródło: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 117-120.

“Had in him those brave translunary things
That the first poets had.”

Michael Drayton

To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy (1627), referring to Christopher Marlowe.

“Yet have we well begun,
Battles so bravely won
Have ever to the sun
By fame been raisëd.”

Michael Drayton

Źródło: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 29-32.

“The coast was clear.”

Michael Drayton

Nimphidia, the Court of Faery (1627).