Brett is quite good for other lyric poetry, too. There's also a Muses
Library edition (small format, 2 vols. I think) by John Buxton, ca 1960.
Dick Hardin
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From: Christopher Warley [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 11:43 AM
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Subject: Re: Drayton edition
I don't know about that particular edition. Drayton is horribly
underprinted (when will there be a penguin or something with decent
notes?!), but Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, ed. Cyril Brett (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1907) is decent, especially for Idea, because it prints
sonnets from different editions (1594, 1599, 1600, 1605, 1619) separately,
rather than either collating them or just using the 1619 version. I can't
imagine anyone will be coming out with a new version of polyolbion anytime
soon, but I'm usually wrong about such things.
cw
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>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:42:43 -0400
>From: David Wilson-Okamura <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Drayton edition
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>This morning I was looking for used editions of Drayton. No luck
>finding the 5 vol. Hebel ed., but I did see a three-volume set for
>about $50 (US). Is it any good? Bookseller's description follows:
>
>The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With
>Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. 3 vols. Elibron Classics.
>Elibron Classics, 2001. This book is an Elibron Classics reprint.
>Paperback. New. Originally published by John Russell Smith, London,
1876.
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