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1612 poem by Michael Drayton
The Poly-Olbion is a topographical poem describing England and Wales. Written by Michael Drayton (1563–1631) and published in 1612, it was reprinted with
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Prodigy house in Cheshire, England
School. Brereton appears in Drayton's Poly-Olbion, inspired by the traditions around the Brereton Lake. The Poly-Olbion is a 1612 topographical poem that
Brereton_Hall
16th/17th-century English poet and playwright
1613, the first part of this vast work was published under the title of Poly-Olbion, eighteen books being produced, to which the learned John Selden supplied
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Line of poetic meter comprising 12 syllables
Sir Philip Sidney, and in two notable long poems, Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion and Robert Browning's Fifine at the Fair, they have more often featured
Alexandrine
Flag of Cornwall
to have been confused with one that comes from a 1590 poem entitled Poly-Olbion by Michael Drayton. It states that the banner carried by the Cornish
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Metrical foot
th'ancient Heroes' deeds (the monuments of Kings) (Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion) Iambic heptameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of seven
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Metrical line of verses consisting of six feet
few from the 17th; the most prominent of these is Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion (1612) in couplets of iambic hexameter. An example from Drayton (marking
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Green colour of dyed woollen cloth formerly originating in Lincoln, England
was a thing of the past. Michael Drayton provided a sidenote in his Poly-Olbion (published 1612): "Lincoln anciently dyed the best green in England."
Lincoln_green
Heroic outlaw in English folklore
theory is that Robin Hood died at Kirkby, Pontefract. Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion Song 28 (67–70), published in 1622, speaks of Robin Hood's death and
Robin_Hood
Hill in East Sussex, England
denizened for ours. That boding, ominous brook !" From Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion 1612 Freeman suggests that Senlac means Sand Lake in Old English, with
Senlac_Hill
Giant in Welsh and English mythology
by the construction of the Royal Citadel in 1665. Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion preserves the tale as well: Amongst the ragged Cleeves those monstrous
Gogmagog_(giant)
Tributary of the River Thames in southern England
2010. The Fairie Queen, book 4, canto 11, verse 32 Poly-Olbion, Song XVII lines 20-32 Poly-Olbion, Song XVII lines 47-50, 53-57, 59-64 R Bloomfield (1806)
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Form of wrestling originating in Cornwall, England
evidence for wrestling in the West Country comes from a 1612 poem entitled "Poly-Olbion" by Michael Drayton, which gives the names of some Cornish Wrestling
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Forest in the United Kingdom
It is one of the "Fower stately Wood Nymphs" (Michael Drayton, 1611, Poly-Olbion, Song 17) of the Forest Ridge (the other three being Worth, Ashdown and
St_Leonard's_Forest
Outdoor team game from Cornwall, England
Hurling to the Countrye. c. 1590, poet Michael Drayton, in his work Poly-Olbion, writes on Cornish hurling: According to the law, or when the ball to
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English jurist (1584–1654)
quotations and references, to the first eighteen cantos of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. In 1614 he published Titles of Honor, which, in spite of defects and
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Town and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales
Welsh prose romance Culhwch and Olwen. Drayton described the area in his Poly-Olbion as "So highly Milford is in every mouth renowned / Noe haven hath aught
Milford_Haven
Spa town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England
Michael Drayton: "While Malvern, king of hills, Severn overlooks", (Poly-Olbion, 1613, song 7), John Dyer: "By the blue steeps of distant Malvern wall'd"
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Michael Drayton, The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion from the Eighteenth Song (see Poly-Olbion, Part 1, 1612) John Hagthorpe, Divine Meditations
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Dance
Michael Drayton dwells on "Lancastrian nymphs" dancing the hornpipe in Poly-Olbion (1612). In The King's Entertainment at Welbeck (1633), Ben Jonson describes
Hornpipe
Historic county in Wales
Thomas Churchyard (Worthiness of Wales, 1587); and Michael Drayton (Poly-Olbion, 1613). In the late 17th century, under Charles II, Monmouthshire was
Monmouthshire_(historic)
16th/17th-century Scottish poet
almost been persuaded by his "dear Drummond" to print the later books of Poly-Olbion at Hart's Edinburgh press. In the winter of 1618–1619, Drummond had included
William Drummond of Hawthornden
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Structure of Rime 1960 Duncan, Robert Passages 1968 Drayton, Michael Poly-Olbion 1612; 1622 15,000 lines alexandrine Dryden, John The Hind and the Panther
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play The White Devil published. Michael Drayton's topographical poem Poly-Olbion published. Jacob Barnet (a Jew) is imprisoned by the University of Oxford
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List of martial art moves
Cornish Annual, J & B Dodsworth Ltd, 1928, pp. 63–69. Drayton, Michael: Poly-Olbion, 1612, i, 244 Carew, Richard: The Survey of Cornwall, 1602, p. 76. Hooper
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City and non-metropolitan district in Norfolk, England
high'st regard the fourth of all the land", as Michael Drayton noted in Poly-Olbion (1612). The wealth generated by the wool trade throughout the Middle
Norwich
county's forests were decimated. The poet Michael Drayton in his poem Poly-Olbion, published in the early 17th century, made the trees denounce the iron
History_of_Sussex
Archbishop of Canterbury from 941 to 958, Christian saint
between the two kings' realms at Watling Street. In Michael Drayton's poem Poly-Olbion (Song 24), he is described as "Odo the Severe". Farmer Oxford Dictionary
Oda_of_Canterbury
Legendary king of the Britons
expedition against the French at Hainaut. Michael Drayton refers to him in Poly-Olbion as "Brute Green-Shield, to whose name we providence impute / Divinely
Brutus_Greenshield
River in England – third-longest in the UK
divide was also described in Michael Drayton's epic topographical poem, Poly-Olbion, The Sixe and Twentieth Song, 1622: And of the British floods, though
River_Trent
Constituent college of Lancaster University
Lancashire map drawn by William Hole for the 1622 edition of a poem "Poly-Olbion, or a Chorographical Description of ... The Renowned Isle of Great Britain"
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Description of Leicester Shire published. Second part of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion published. Sir Richard Hawkins' narrative of his adventures Voiage into
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for the Lincolnshire Bagpipes". Michael Drayton (1563–1631) writes in Poly-Olbion: "Bean belly, Leicestershire her attribute doth bear. And Bells and Bagpipes
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English engraver
Title-page for Michael Drayton's topographical epic Poly-Olbion
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"Britain" as a barbarous Scottish invention. The long descriptive poem Poly-Olbion by Michael Drayton was belated in terms of its contribution to the union
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streams. This couplet was closely echoed in 1612, in Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion description of the Trent: Or thirty kinds of fish that in my streams
List of fishes of the River Trent
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English antiquarian (1687–1765)
also owed an influence from older sources. Michael Drayton's 1612 poem Poly-Olbion had for instance portrayed them as wise, monotheistic sages and philosophers
William_Stukeley
1611) John Dowland, A Pilgrimes Solace, verse and music Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, Part I, a topographical poem describing England and Wales; with notes
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Middle English poem written c. 1300
Michael Drayton retold the story of Beves and the giant Ascopart in his Poly-Olbion, Second Song. John Bunyan's A Few Sighs from Hell records that in his
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(masque) John Webster – The White Devil published Michael Drayton – Poly-Olbion Luis de Góngora – Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (Fable of Polyphemus and
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Description of Leicester Shire published. Second part of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion published. Sir Richard Hawkins' narrative of his adventures Voiage into
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works about Sussex was Michael Drayton's epic topographical poem The Poly-Olbion . First published in 1612, the 17th song describes Sussex's four large
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Releases by the English publisher
Anthony (illustrator) 1967 Death is a Dream Tubb, E. C. 1967 The New Poly-Olbion Young, Andrew, Canon 1967 To Celebrate Her Living Whistler, Laurence
Publications by Rupert Hart-Davis
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Scottish poet and clergyman
Burning as Light: 37 poems (1967) - selection by Leonard Clark The New Poly-Olbion (1967) - prose poems Posthumous publications The Poetic Jesus (SPCK,
Andrew Young (poet, born 1885)
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Rural district in Warwickshire, England
poet Michael Drayton devoted a long section of his topographical poem Poly-Olbion to what he called the "Vale of Red-horse", noting it was in length "near
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Welsh goldsmith (fl. 1584–1627?)
Michael Drayton mentioned his friend John Williams in a preface to Poly-Olbion (London, 1612), addressed "to my Friends the Cambro-Britans". In 1614
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Scottish printer (died 1621)
seeking to arrange with Hart for the publication of the last part of his 'Poly-Olbion.' Drummond was earnest with Hart 'in that particular', but the negotiation
Andro_Hart
English religious poet
kinsman, Mr. Andrew Pollexfen." This refers to Michael Drayton, author of Poly-Olbion, and William Browne, who wrote Britannia's Pastorals, and implores them
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