Michael Drayton – лучшие книги

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Mortimeriados is a story of the wars between Edward II and the barons, down to the capture of Mortimer at Nottingham castle by Edward III, it is told in rime royal, and at great length. There are admirable passages in this long and comprehensive epic, every line of which shows Drayton hard at work in his dogged, persevering way; determined to hammer out the best poetry he can, seldom slovenly, though often crabbed, and now and then meeting with the reward of his conscientious labours.