Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles

ELIZABETHAN SONNET CYCLES <P> Five Major Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences by Samuel Daniel Michael Drayton Sir Philip Sidney William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser. </P> <P> A collection of five major sonnet sequences from the Elizabethan era by some of the great poets of the period: Sir Philip Sidney Edmund Spenser Michael Drayton Samuel Daniel and William Shakespeare. Each sonnet cycle is love poetry and some of the finest verse in the English language: Sidney's 'Astrophel and Stella' Daniel's 'Delia' Drayton's 'Idea' Spenser's 'Amoretti' and Shakespeare's 'Sonnets'. </P> <P> This edition prints each poem cycle on its own without notes or editorial intrusions. And each poem has a page to itself rather than being crammed together. It's a useful edition for students. </P> <P> MICHAEL DRAYTON SONNET 4 FROM 'IDEA': </P> <P> BRIGHT STAR of beauty on whose eyelids sit | A thousand nymph-like and enamoured graces | The goddesses of memory and wit | Which there in order take their several places; | In whose dear bosom sweet delicious love | Lays down his quiver which he once did bear | Since he that blessed paradise did prove | And leaves his mother's lap to sport him there | Let others strive to entertain with words | My soul is of a braver mettle made; | I hold that vile which vulgar wit affords; | In me's that faith which time cannot invade. | Let what I praise be still made good by you; | Be you most worthy whilst I am most true! <P> <P> Includes the illustrations of the poets and notes on further reading. The book is now in a hardback edition. </P> <P> British Poets Series. Bibliography & illustrations. 536 pages. ISBN 9781861714473 </P> www.crmoon.com