Date:1610
Description:Drayton: the other Warwickshire poet well-known in Shakespeare's time. Michael Drayton was born in 1563 at Hartshill in Warwickshire and often visited Clifford Chambers, a village close to Stratford. Drayton's poetry was well-known in his time and Dr John Hall, Shakespeare's son-in-law, when noting his treatment of Drayton, described him as 'an excellent poet'. Full title: Poems: by Michael Drayton esquire. Newly corrected by the author. London, [by ?W. Stansby] for John Smethwicke, 1610.
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