da To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy; citato da Kay Redfield Jamison, in Toccato dal fuoco, traduzione di A. Serra, TEA, 2009
Michael Drayton Frasi e Citazioni
Michael Drayton: Frasi in inglese
“Victor I will remain
Or on this earth lie slain,
Never shall she sustain
Loss to redeem me.”
Origine: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 37-40.
“Oh, when shall English men
With such acts fill a pen,
Or England breed again
Such a King Harry?”
Origine: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 117-120.
“For that fine madness still he did retain
Which rightly should possess a poet’s brain.”
To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy (1627).
“Had in him those brave translunary things
That the first poets had.”
To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy (1627), referring to Christopher Marlowe.
Origine: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 1-8.
“Yet have we well begun,
Battles so bravely won
Have ever to the sun
By fame been raisëd.”
Origine: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 29-32.
Nimphidia, the Court of Faery (1627).