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NOTES TO PP. 60–9
7 Newdigate, Michael Drayton and His Circle, p. 218.
8 Carol Maddison, Apollo and the Nine: A History of the Ode, London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1960, pp. 290–6. Paul Fry, The Poet’s Calling in the English Ode, New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980, begins his study with Jonson.
9 Sidney, A Defence of Poetry, ed. J.A.Van Dorsten, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1966, p. 46. For Drayton’s bardic interests, see also Geoffrey G.Hiller, “‘Sacred Bards’
and ‘Wise Druides’: Drayton and His Archetype of the Poet,” ELH 51 (1984): 1–15.
10 This point is developed more fully by Marlin E.Blaine, “Drayton’s Agincourt in
1606: History, Genre and National Consciousness” in Renaissance Papers 1996, ed.
George Walton Williams and Philip Rollinson, Columbia, SC: Camden House,
1997, pp. 53–65.
11 Richard F.Hardin, Michael Drayton and the Passing of Elizabethan England, p. 160, n.1.
12 See McEachern, The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590–1612, ch. 4.
13 The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, ed. G.Keynes, 4 vols, London: Faber & Faber, 1964,
vol. IV, pp. 194–5.
14 Pat Rogers, “Drayton’s Arden and Windsor-Forest,” Papers on Language and Literature
17 (1981):284–91.
15 McEachern, The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590–1612, p. 170.
16 Newdigate, Michael Drayton and His Circle, ch. 12.
17 Lewis, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama, 1954, repr.
London: Oxford University Press, 1973, p. 535. For a considered encounter with
Lewis, see also William A.Oram, “The Muses Elizium: A Late Golden World,”
Studies in Philology 75 (1978):10–31.
18 Cogswell, “The Path to Elizium ‘Lately Discovered,’” pp. 226–9. See also Newdigate,
Michael Drayton and His Circle, pp. 210–22.
19 The Whole Works of William Browne, ed. W.Carew Hazlitt, 1869, repr. New York:
Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970, vol. II, p. 98. Further references to Browne’s poetry
are to this edition.
20 Fowler, “Genre and Tradition,” in The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry: Donne
to Marvell, ed. Thomas N.Corns, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, p.
89. The example he provides is from the second song from Book II of Britannia’s
Pastorals. The final lines of the song, not quoted by Fowler, conclude on a
characteristic note of expansion:
Yet of faire Albion all the westerne Swaines
Were long since up, attending on the Plaines
When Nereus daughter with her mirthfull hoast
Should summon them, on their declining coast.
21 Cedric C.Brown and Margherita Piva, “William Browne, Marino, France, and the
Third Book of Britannia’s Pastorals,” RES 29 (1978):385–404.
22 Allan Holaday, “William Browne’s Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke,”
Philological Quarterly 28 (1949):495–7.
23 Aubrey, “Brief Lives,” Chiefly of his Contemporaries, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols, Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1898, vol. II, p. 306.
24 J.Milton French, “George Wither in Prison,” PMLA 45 (1930):959–66.
25 “Brief Lives,” Chiefly of his Contemporaries, I, 221. David Norbrook, “Levelling
Poetry: George Wither and the English Revolution, 1642–1649,” English Literary
Renaissance 21 (1991):217–18, has questioned the truth of this anecdote. In a similar
possibly erroneous manner, the Dictionary of National Biography assumes Wither is the
subject of the following lines from “The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel”:
“But Fagotted his Notions as they fell,/And if they Rhim’d and Rattl’d all was well.”
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