Michael Drayton

Chambers The Elizabethan Stage Oxford Clarendon Press 1923; pp. But when in 1603 he addressed a poem of compliment to James I on his accession it was ridiculed and his services rudely rejected. Of these Nimphidia is perhaps the best thing Drayton ever wrote except his famous ballad on the battle of Agincourt; it is quite unique of its kind and full of rare fantastic fancy.

Michael Drayton (1563 – 23 December 1631) was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era.