An Introduction to Michael Drayton in Bloomington, MN

Revival of an Elizabethan Poet.
There are few English poets as well known by name as Drayton who is at the same time so little accessible to the general reader. Outside of libraries, it is almost impossible to get together a complete set of his works; and the valuable selection made by Mr. Bullen has long been out of print. Other volumes of selections have been edited by Mr. Henry Morley and by Canon Beeching,—the latter's, published as late as 1899, heralding the manifestation of a new popular interest in the old poet who has been largely neglected save by scholars since the days of Lamb and Southey. Now there are announced a new complete variorum edition of Drayton's poems under the editorship of Mr. Arnold Glover, and a new selection with an introduction by Mr. Arthur Symons. And as an avant-courieur to this concerted attempt to restore Drayton to his place of eminence in English literature, there has lately been published in England a little volume by Professor Oliver Elton which will tell the prospective reader of the poetry all that is known, through the researches of modern scholarship, of the man and his work.