Poly-Olbion (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Drayton
- First Published: 1612
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Seventeenth century, Legends, Allegory, Animals, Great Britain, Fables, Geography
Critical Evaluation:
The complete title of Michael Drayton’s long topographical poem is Poly-Olbion: Or, A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Rivers, Mountaines, Forests, and other Parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine, With intermixture of the most Remarquable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarityes, Pleasures, and Commodities of the same, Digested in a Poem. Quite a bit of digesting is entailed, especially when a title page note continues, “With a Table added, for direction to those occurrences of Story and Antiquitie, whereunto the Course of the Volume...
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